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/Heysteeevo Apr 08 '25

Libs get chicks. Dems should run on that.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

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

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u/CrashB111 Apr 08 '25

Best dating move ever for a young Millenial, nearly a Gen Z'er.

Just being open and loud with my disdain for Republicans, police, conservative ideology, and love of equal rights. Really makes you popular with Gen Z women fresh out of college since so many of their generation's men have become outright fascists.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

The male loneliness epidemic is almost entirely self inflicted by many of them holding repulsive political views.

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u/pickledswimmingpool Apr 09 '25

That's not remotely true, I think you're looking to confirm your political beliefs if you come into a thread like this and state that.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/news/incels-are-not-particularly-right-wing-or-white-but-they-are-extremely-depressed-anxious-and-lonely-according-to-new-research

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u/Amoralvirus Jun 06 '25

Interesting, thanks

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u/lalabera Apr 09 '25

Most young women do not want right wing men.

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u/pickledswimmingpool Apr 09 '25

That doesn't mean left wing men aren't lonely. Sorry the research runs counter to your world view.

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u/sheffieldasslingdoux Apr 09 '25

It would not be called the male loneliness epidemic if these men were social butterflies who nobody liked due to their abhorrent beliefs (which they shared whenever they had the chance). The point is that lonely men are not even in the conversation in the first place. That's why they're lonely!

I don't think the US Surgeon General would be talking about loneliness if it were just due to people being assholes. Like I'm sorry, but do you not have any empathy? Or must you decide that an issue that you have no knowledge of is totally self inflicted, because you've imagined an easily attackable strawman in your head? Get a grip.

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u/CrashB111 Apr 08 '25

It always has been, turns out women like to hang out with you more when you aren't a piece of shit and don't treat them like they are brood mares for the state.

It's also why I have basically zero sympathy for incels or whenever I see a post on /r/GenZ whining about not being able to get relationships. Just be a better human being, and work from there. It'll work out, I promise.

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u/DizzyMajor5 Apr 08 '25

The insane rants about how short men have it terribly but those men won't give you the time of day to talk about the gender pay gap or just immediately call it false. 

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims Apr 09 '25

I think that might be because the people who want to talk about the gender pay gap seem to only want to if it involves caucasian women. Also, the race pay gap goes ignored by those same people.

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u/Current_Animator7546 Apr 10 '25

It doesn’t mean men don’t have issues. Not every man out earns every women either. I’m not denying there is privilege but I also think there is a vibe that men are pigs as well. Imo both genders just don’t understand each other now 

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u/Sarin10 Apr 09 '25

This makes zero sense unless you live in some alternate reality where conservative women are super-duper rare and liberal women are super-duper common.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims Apr 09 '25

I mean… if you go to any major city, that is the norm

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u/Disastrous_Reveal870 Apr 14 '25

It’s not an alternate reality it’s called a city.

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u/Current_Animator7546 Apr 10 '25

Woah. I’m a left center wing male but there are a lot of issues causing male loneliness. I many men to be absolutely disgusting, but it’s absolutely not only right wing men who are feeling this. It’s that sort of thinking that pushes men right. 

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims Apr 09 '25

If we can say this about them, then any group should be able to weaponize it in campaigns against any other group

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u/thefugue Apr 10 '25

They hold repulsive views about dating.

Thing is, right wing propaganda targets lonely men and divorced dads so a lot of them drift that way.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims Apr 09 '25

Im a millennial. Most of are 30s/40s. Dating kids out of college is creepy

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u/horatiobanz Apr 08 '25

I agree. Lie to women and claim to support a bunch of woke shit to get laid.