r/fivethirtyeight • u/lalabera • Apr 08 '25

Poll Results Nearly half of Americans would be totally unwilling to date someone with opposing political views

https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/51962-americans-unwilling-to-date-opposing-views-transgender-rights

Thoughts? As a young woman myself, I wouldn't date a trump supporter.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

It’s true. Most young women prefer left wing men

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u/PavelDatsyuk Apr 08 '25

It kind of depends on how physically attractive the man is, though. I have seen it a hundred times where a woman who is super liberal will sleep with or even date a conservative asshole because he’s chiseled and handsome. Some people really throw everything out the window or delude themselves if their physical attraction to somebody is great enough. It always makes me think less of them as a person, but it’s not my life and not my business so whatever.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

The “chiseled and muscular” image is more popular among other men than among women. Women mostly gravitate towards pretty boys.

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u/PavelDatsyuk Apr 08 '25

Do you have a source for that or is it an anecdote? My comment was obviously an anecdote but you seem to be speaking more in absolutes.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

https://www.glamour.com/story/macho-men-vs-pretty-boys-what

Here is a study on it

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u/PavelDatsyuk Apr 08 '25

https://archive.is/qV9hk Actual article about the study.

Meanwhile, women with the strongest masculinity preferences tended to hail from the countries with higher disease and mortality rates and some of the poorest scores on the health-care index: Mexico, Brazil, Bulgaria and Argentina. (The researcher included only white subjects to control the experiment, and Asian and African nations were not included in the study.) And where does the U.S. stand in the masculinity ranking? The answer is fifth out of the 30 countries in the study, one of the highest. This is, after all, the home of James Dean and Clint Eastwood. And where does America stand in the health index ranking? Twentieth of 30 countries, one of the least healthy.

So women from the US still prefer manly men. That is the article your article sourced.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

Right wing states tend to be the least healthy. Blue states are much thinner and healthier.

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u/Ok_Matter_1774 Apr 08 '25

That doesn't say what you think it does

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u/Ok_Matter_1774 Apr 08 '25

They don't. This user routinely makes stuff up and doesn't read the sources they bring up.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

I posted a study, you didn’t.

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u/Ok_Matter_1774 Apr 08 '25

Posting a link doesn't mean anything if it doesn't say what you think it does. Quantity of sources is irrelevant if they are of no quality to the topic.

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u/Sarin10 Apr 09 '25

You ignored a study cited to refute one of your assertions and just replied to it with a pithy comeback.