Posted on 02/10/2019 5:09:07 PM PST by Maceman
NYU Psychology professor Eric Knowles and doctoral student Sarah DiMuccio queried 300 men on Amazon's crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to discover whether they had or would search for terms such as "erectile dysfunction," "how to get girls," "penis enlargement," "testosterone," and "Viagra," among others.
They discovered a high level of concern about masculinity "was strongly associated with interest in these search topics."
They then correlated the geopgrahic dispersion of these search topics in 2016 with how such areas voted in that year's election, finding "that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as 'erectile dysfunction.' Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as 'breast augmentation' and 'menopause.'"
The researchers also checked relations between fragile masculinity and voting in 2008 and 2012, finding "that the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections was distinctively stronger in 2016" than it was when John McCain and Mitt Romney were Republican presidential candidates.
Similarly, in the over 390 House races which featured a Republican versus a Democrat, Republicans gained more support in areas with elevated search levels of terms related to fragile masculinity. "However, there was no significant relationship between fragile masculinity and voting in the 2014 or 2016 congressional elections. This suggests that fragile masculinity has now become a stronger predictor of voting behavior."
Knowles and DiMuccio noted that their findings should be considered with caveats. They said that fragile masculinity didn't decrease support for female candidates in 2018.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Just a few hours ago, it became clear to me that I really love being a woman, love my body along with my soul. Thought about dear women friends who are all upset about men. I can’t say for sure, but as far as I know, they do not love being women and all that entails physically as well as mentally.
My dearest sweet, intelligent woman friend wants a divorce from a really great man with many degrees and a wonderful income. Spoke with both of them today. They belong together IMHO. Plus, they both hate Trump.
Pure speculation: Trump exhibits unabashed masculinity; Melania is totally feminine. Can’t have that!!! Because then liberals are forced to look at their own discomfort with normal sexuality???
Don’t mean to imply latent homosexuality. Just discomfort with sex.
I’ll welcome further thoughts.
Says the guy with the hyphenated last name.
Got it.
Oh..!
And if you like firearms, that means you surely have a little d*ck —it’s compensation, see..?
Uh-huh.
What they would call “strong” masculinity would be identified by normal men and women as effeminacy.
“whether they had or would search for terms such as “erectile dysfunction,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “testosterone,” and “Viagra,”
Do liberals think about anything besides genitals?
“Research protocol”?
Ha! They just make this sh!t up. It’s such a joke.
Yes and Newsweek appeals only to men with no sex organ.
We all have our burdens to bear.
So weird to see Fred Rogers without a cardigan.
Yeah, riiight.
However if true that Trump supports are concerned about their masculinity more than Hillary supporters it because the ‘Soi Bois” are too concerned to enhanced their “feminine side”least their boyfriends accuse them of having “toxic masculinity”
Do a study on “transitioning” and see who’s supporting have “gender dysplasia”
That must be it.
Under the same investigative template, since more homosexuals live in districts that went for Hillary, we can deduce all Democrat men are homos.
What’s the cure for wild maniacal laughter?
Good grief. Conservative men are manly men. WTF and WhoTF is this SOB? And he gets paid to write this drivel?
Beata males are driven to follow alpha males.
FIXED IT.
TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS APPEAL TO MEN WITH MASCULINITY, RESEARCHERS FIND.
Man's prayer..and oath
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