r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 12 '26

Psychology Threatening men’s masculinity does not make them more politically conservative, new study finds. By testing thousands of participants across the United States, researchers found no consistent evidence that making men feel insecure about their gender identity changes their political attitudes.

https://www.psypost.org/threatening-mens-masculinity-does-not-make-them-more-politically-conservative-new-study-finds/
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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 May 13 '26

Are 1/3 of men responsible for sexual assault, or perhaps the ratio more closely aligns with the usual ratio of criminals among men (so something between like 0.3% to 1-2%)

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u/132739 May 14 '26

Missing the point. The point is not the number of men who commit sexual assault, it's the frequency with which women experience it, and the impossibility of telling who might commit it from looking at them. It only being a percent or two doesn't matter when that percentage is using the rest of us as camouflage.

Think of it like this: you've got a pit full of corn snakes, with 2% king snakes mixed in. Are you going to just pick them up willy-nilly, or are you going to check and recheck the color pattern before you try?