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[–] Sarcastaway 0 points (+0|-0)

To validate this list of topics, we asked a sample of 300 men on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform whether they ever had or ever would search for them online. ... Although these men were not a representative sample of American men, their responses suggest that these search terms are a valid way to capture fragile masculinity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/29/how-donald-trump-appeals-to-men-secretly-insecure-about-their-manhood/

In other words, this is a opinion piece (MJ), about a speculative article (WaPo), based on a biased sample (Google Trends), correlated with a another biased sample (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform).

Furthermore, geographic voter demographics have not changed significantly in decades. So if this is a valid trend, it actually suggests that these insecurities have rapidly developed in the last few years. I think that is a far more interesting trend to be explored.

Junk article, interesting study.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 2 points (+2|-0)

A long-winded way of anti-white male propaganda: "Trump supporters are insecure men."

I'd love to know who, by name, was responsible for trying to spin this nonsense.

[–] Sarcastaway 2 points (+2|-0)

Mother Jones article was written by Kevin Drum, WaPo article referenced was written by Eric Knowles and Sarah DiMuccio, with metadata proved by Google.

I think the simplest explanation is that republican voters care more about being masculine than democrat voters. Insecurity is universal in humans, it just manifests differently depending on one's values.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 2 points (+2|-0)

Thanks, I think.

The point I’m trying to make is that this is a smear piece using terminology of the right. “Men are confident and if you’re insecure, you’re not a man. So if you voted for Trump, then you’re not a man.”