This ties into the presidential race perfectly, and what I've been saying for a while.
Liberal (Delicate) men are finally admitting what we knew all along: they are more feminine than conservatives.
Pew Research conducted a fascinating report earlier in October on masculinity in America, surveying over 6,000 adults about whether they identify as more feminine or masculine, which male behaviors should be considered socially acceptable, and how men have fared in modern society compared to women. In an interesting nugget, Pew found that fewer Democratic men, 29%, rate themselves as “highly masculine” compared to Republican men, 53%.
The results aren’t shocking. [Delicate] men lean more feminine, while conservatives lean more masculine. Sometimes, I wonder if liberal women, who I presume are dating [Delicate] men, attack traditional masculinity because they are jealous that their boyfriends or husbands are not as masculine as they want them to be and that they are unable to attract a typically masculine man. Perhaps? Perhaps the lady doth protest too much?
As a general observation about masculinity in America, I think both the left (in nearly 95% of instances) and the right (sometimes, but not always) offer twisted views about what it means to be a man. The left makes traditional masculinity a toxic problem that needs to be corrected with the proper feminist coding. What this means is to deny your biological hardwiring as a man and try to be more feminine and overly sensitive, which leads nowhere good.
Along with this study, Melanie Notkin published an article in NY Post in July 2021 called, Why progressive women want to date men who act like conservativescited{2}
She says there's a lot of gender stuff on dates, but many folks feel like I’m walking on eggshells, To the liberal mind and teaching, if he pays for dinner, it signals he doesn't value his date as an equal so there's a lot of side-stepping in trying to be super casual about it all. If she wants to pay or split it or whatever, that’s fine with the liberal male.”
Melanie wrote; This egalitarian dating style could be the problem that’s holding him back. While some women balk at any hint of traditional male gender behavior, more lament the loss of chivalry. I’m one of them. I find it attractive when a man plans our first few dates and knowingly walks curbside when we’re together. It signals he wants to protect me from passing traffic or errant puddle splashes.
The female desire to feel protected and looked after is built into our DNA, says evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, a professor at the University of New Mexico and author of several books including “The Mating Mind.”
“It’s a mismatch between what progressive women say they want and what they actually respond to,” Miller told me. “Women’s instinctive mate preferences have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years for guys who are competent, strong, good providers, good protectors and happy with a sexual division of labor,” he added. Women want “decisive men who are also compassionate and thoughtful.”
A 2018 study from Iowa State University backs this up, reporting that progressive women prefer men who demonstrate more traditional dating behaviors. The women found these men to be “more attractive” because they signal a willingness “to invest by being protective, committed, and by providing resources.”
