I think they feel threatened by the rise of women's economic power and that a lot of it comes from backlash to that. Men typically marry/date across or down in economic class while women tend to date across or up in economic class (comes back to evolutionary psychology and looking for providers). The more women that are out there who are…
I think they feel threatened by the rise of women's economic power and that a lot of it comes from backlash to that. Men typically marry/date across or down in economic class while women tend to date across or up in economic class (comes back to evolutionary psychology and looking for providers). The more women that are out there who are post-college and making good money, the less men without degrees and good incomes feel like they have a shot in the dating pool (this is before we talk about the 85% of men under 6' feeling like they're unappealing via what dating apps have revealed about women's preferences there). The more these men feel insecure about their romantic prospects with women, the more they blame women for it and want to punish women by going after the social policies they care about in politics: abortion access, women's equality (part of DEI), and LGBTQ+ rights/normalization (also part of DEI).
That said, the anti-choice movement was already established prior to Title IX passage and women rising in the work force and at universities. The anti-choice coalition's backbone originally came from the religious groups who opposed abortion, but I think we're in the middle of a generational shift within the anti-choice movement where the religious folks are still there and are probably still a majority, but I think that the folks who are motivated by the backlash to the rise of women's economic power are growing in share size within that cohort. It's also important to note that those two groups (the uber-religious and the backlashers) can be overlapping and are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Just my take on their motivations.
I think they feel threatened by the rise of women's economic power and that a lot of it comes from backlash to that. Men typically marry/date across or down in economic class while women tend to date across or up in economic class (comes back to evolutionary psychology and looking for providers). The more women that are out there who are post-college and making good money, the less men without degrees and good incomes feel like they have a shot in the dating pool (this is before we talk about the 85% of men under 6' feeling like they're unappealing via what dating apps have revealed about women's preferences there). The more these men feel insecure about their romantic prospects with women, the more they blame women for it and want to punish women by going after the social policies they care about in politics: abortion access, women's equality (part of DEI), and LGBTQ+ rights/normalization (also part of DEI).
That said, the anti-choice movement was already established prior to Title IX passage and women rising in the work force and at universities. The anti-choice coalition's backbone originally came from the religious groups who opposed abortion, but I think we're in the middle of a generational shift within the anti-choice movement where the religious folks are still there and are probably still a majority, but I think that the folks who are motivated by the backlash to the rise of women's economic power are growing in share size within that cohort. It's also important to note that those two groups (the uber-religious and the backlashers) can be overlapping and are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Just my take on their motivations.