The Psychology Of What Women Want - Rob Henderson - #929

Left wing women are learning to love right wing men. Political division has become a sexual fetish. Today, in online political fandoms, people behind enemy lines are often seen as potential sexual conquests. Right wing men want a liberal art hoe, whereas some leftist women lust after the right wing anon. It's hard to pin down discourse like this sometimes, but this trend is also substantiated in studies about the dating patterns of progressive women.

What do you think about that? Yeah, I, you know, I I wonder about these sort of media trends, these headlines, um, because often the reason why they get uh so much interest is because they're sort of at odds with our intuitions, right? And I know you've you've spoken with with plenty of people about this idea of assortive mating. We tend to be attracted to people who are somewhat similar to ourselves. So then when you have this splashy headline, you know, right-wing men want the left-wing Art ho, the left-wing art hos want the Republican MAGA bro or something.

you know, it's it's a little edgy, it's a little catches us off guard. But I think there's, you know, to to the extent that it might be true, you know, if if you think about what are the qualities that women find attractive in men, sort of self-sufficiency, ambition, income, uh, you know, all all the kinds of qualities that that are associated with sort of an a masculine guy. Um And then you look at sort of the voting patterns of men and you find that the predictors of of voting for the conservative parties are also tend to be the traits that women tend to find attractive. So if you look at um uh self-identified, uh, if you ask men, you know, how how masculine do you feel versus how feminine do you feel, the higher men rate themselves as masculine, the more likely they are to support a conservative political candidate, uh, and the more uh, or the less masculine they feel, the the more likely they are to sort support a left-wing candidate.

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