Washington Post mocked over study claiming Trump voters could be insecure about their manhood

foxnews.com/politics/washington-post-mocked-over-study-claiming-trump-voters-could-be-insecure-about-their-manhood

If you’ve Googled “erectile dysfunction,” “how to get girls” or questioned your penis size – you might be a Trump supporter, according to The Washington Post.

Critics slammed Post over a “ridiculous” analysis that suggests male Trump supporters could be insecure about their manhood and masculinity.

“We call this the ‘fragile masculinity hypothesis,’” the Post study claims.

Thursday’s piece, “How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood,” was written by New York University social psychologist Eric Knowles and a student, Sarah DiMuccio. It features an assortment of phrases that would make a middle schooler chuckle and points to things such as Trump “boasting about the size of his penis” as to why he – in the eyes of the authors – exudes machismo.

However, the authors feel that men in MAGA hats aren’t always as “confidently masculine” as the president himself.

Conservative strategist Chris Barron couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the analysis in one of the nation’s most respected newspapers.

"Honestly, I have read more coherent thoughts scribbled on the bathroom walls in gas stations,” Barron told Fox News. “If a news outlet had written something similar about Obama supporters, the publication that printed it would be roundly - and rightfully - ridiculed by every other media outlet."

Knowles and DiMuccio wrote that “fragile masculinity” is when men fall short of “unforgiving standard of maleness” that is expected in America from an early age.

“The political process provides a way that fragile men can reaffirm their masculinity. By supporting tough politicians and policies, men can reassure others (and themselves) of their own manliness,” Knowles and DiMuccio wrote before trying to explain how “fragile masculinity” is measured.

“We could not simply do a poll of men, who might not honestly answer questions about their deepest insecurities. Instead we relied on Google Trends, which measures the popularity of Google search terms,” they wrote.

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Incompetent Zig Forums mod has anchored this article twice
The fool is nitpicking and calling it a Blog post.
The fucking
WASHINGTON POST!

It may be some of Bezos Trump trolling, but that makes it all the funnier.

The shithead mod is obviously looking for a pretext to stop this article, since he is most likely one of the demographic that is being mocked and most likely has manhood issues.

Just think of some of the shit that he? lets pass here.
Enuff said.

So Here the end of a "real" news article about the aformentioned "blog" post

The authors then selected search terms they believed would be common among men concerned about their respective manhood, such as “erectile dysfunction,” “hair loss,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “penis size,” “steroids,” “testosterone” and “Viagra.” Then Knowles and DiMuccio asked 300 random men whether they ever would ever search for those terms and declared that their responses suggest “a valid way to capture fragile masculinity.”

Daily Caller media editor Amber Athey told Fox News that if anyone is lacking masculinity, it’s the type of people who would conduct this study.

“I’ve never met more insecure men than sad leftists who lecture women about what they’re supposed to believe,” Athey said.

Psychotherapist and "Be Fearless" author Jonathan Alpert doesn’t buy into the study either, pointing to a tidbit about fragile masculinity not being associated with support for Mitt Romney in 2012 or support for John McCain in 2008, which the authors feel indicates that “the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections” was stronger in 2016.

“Most people, men and women, would say that John McCain is the height of masculinity – about as manly as you can get. But the study indicates that fragile masculinity was not associated with support for McCain in 2008,” Alpert told Fox News. “He was a war hero who epitomized fearlessness in the face of his captors. What about Trump is more masculine than McCain?”

Alpert also feels that several of the search terms used indicate that a man is simply concerned about health issue and want to improve his life, which has nothing to do with whether or not someone is manly enough to match the authors’ expectation.

The report was published in the Post’s “Monkey Cage” section, which allows political scientists and scholars to contribute to the paper. The takeaway from the study, according to the authors, is that “fragile masculinity is a critical feature of our current politics” but warns readers that the entire article could be nonsense.

“We can’t be entirely sure that fragile masculinity is causing people to vote in a certain way,” Knowles and DiMuccio wrote. “It remains to be seen whether any link between fragile masculinity and voting will persist after Trump exits the national stage.”

The Hill media reporter Joe Concha pointed out that the Post has raised eyebrows with an assortment of over-the-top stories over the past few days.

“When Donald Trump is no longer in office and the media like the Washington Post – who in the span of a few days have called Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations a ‘nightmare forest’ and now a story on Trump appealing to a lack of manhood, which as ridiculous as it is sad – we will see a crash of clicks and views that resembles the 2008 financial crash,” Concha told Fox News.

The Post also admitted it made a blunder on Wednesday by placing a story about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh coaching youth basketball under the “Public Safety” section online.

OP, you're mocking disabled people(of which the Zig Forums mod may be one), so you sound like a Trump supporter.

Why all these anti-Trump posts then?

I voted for Trump.
I was diagnosed in my teens as a sociopath and I have attacked many SJW's on Facebook and Reddit, Twitter, amongst others.

But those site make it difficult to keep coming back after being banned.

But this site, and it's allowing of vpns, etc, while it's evil's domain.

Since mostly the alt-right use this site(I've trolled lefty pol, but they don't as angry as The Nazis), I have to be a SJW scum bag, AND PICK ON EVEN LOWER SCUM LIKE LIL ANDY MCgOVERN and /killcen/.

I am quite an obsessive freak

You're nothing special, just another sad loser wasting his life here, thinking he's "bad"
I'm gone, you aint worth the time

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It's obvious the mod has a small penis, low self-esteem, and is bitter and resentful about his plight……

That type of lack of power and authority always leads spineless little penis losers like him to seek out irrelevant positions of perceived Authority, like trying to be a mod in a worthless image board…

His ability to Anchor certain threads is his way of lashing out at the world, and getting retribution for being born with an embarrassingly small penis.

It's really not rocket science

lol @ YOU thinking you can troll

You can't even spell

You can't even construct a coherent sentence

Let me know the day you learn the difference between present tense and past tense, or simple punctuation.

You communicate on the same level as a brain-injured orangutan.

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'sociopath' is NOT a diagnosis any psychiatrist would make, at least not a legitimate psychiatrist, and certainly not after evaluating a teenager…

That's not a clinical diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder… That's complete bullshit…

YOU'RE LYING……

Since you're incapable of communicating effectively, the obvious question is whether or not you are capable of reading?

Not incompetent at all, but deliberated sabotage.
The mod has a record for anti White hatred.

I wonder if these propagandists are the same commies that plague this board calling the anons:
- incels
- virgins
- losers
- mommy's basement … whatever
- mgtow
- misogynist
- gay
- … and any kind of sexually related topics.

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It may be the “Monkey Cage” section, what ever the fuck that is, but doesn'y sound like a blog to me.

Zig Forums mod definitely erred on this one.

May have shown an unconscious bias to the Walpol

It was the animals that I did bad things to.

I was stopped before I ever 'physically' hurt another human being.(except for certain purgative powders that I experimented with)

you can tell liberals are upset by their own lack of masculinity. they project their insecurity on others, that's how women operate.

you been andy kaufmanned again lil andy
say gang, lil andy's a cat man

he aint even a womyn and he has a whole buncha cats

This shows definate queer tendantcies

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Andy puts tuna on his penis and let's the cats have a go

This is why his cock has pustules
toxoplasmosis
or in his case
coxoplasmosis

How many cats you got there old woman?
Does your landlord know?

Andy, did you know that while 2% of the population is homosexual, 75% of people with 'artistic' inclinations are homosexual or bisexual?

True fact

Google it

Your crush on Elvis is ok
You and Elvis on meth, tongues locked for days, throbbing cocks in hands.

Sweet……bliss
to die like this

2) From a very early age potentially heritable characteristics mark the boy as "different." He finds himself somewhat shy and uncomfortable with the typical "rough and tumble" of his peers. Perhaps he is more interested in art or in reading - simply because he's smart. But when he later thinks about his early life, he will find it difficult to separate out what in these early behavioral differences came from an inherited temperament and what from the next factor, namely:

That for whatever reason, he recalls a painful "mismatch" between what he needed and longed for and what his father offered him. Perhaps most people would agree that his father was distinctly distant and ineffective; maybe it was just that his own needs were unique enough that his father, a decent man, could never quite find the right way to relate to him. Or perhaps his father really disliked and rejected his son's sensitivity. In any event, the absence of a happy, warm, and intimate closeness with his father led to the boy's pulling away in disappointment, "defensively detaching" in order to protect himself.

But sadly, this pulling away from his father, and from the "masculine" role model he needed, also left him even less able to relate to his male peers. We may contrast this to the boy whose loving father dies, for instance, but who is less vulnerable to later homosexuality. This is because the commonplace dynamic in the pre-homosexual boy is not merely the absence of a father - literally or psychologically - but the psychological defense of the boy against his repeatedly disappointing father. In fact, a youngster who does not form this defense (perhaps because of early-enough therapy, or because there is another important male figure in his life, or due to temperament) is much less likely to become homosexual.

4) Although he has "defensively detached" from his father, the young boy still carries silently within him a terrible longing for the warmth, love, and encircling arms of the father he never did nor could have. Early on, he develops intense, nonsexual attachments to older boys he admires - but at a distance, repeating with them the same experience of longing and unavailability. When puberty sets in, sexual urges - which can attach themselves to any object, especially in males - rise to the surface and combine with his already intense need for masculine intimacy and warmth. He begins to develop homosexual crushes. Later he recalls, "My first sexual longings were directed not at girls but at boys. I was never interested in girls."

Perhaps he is more interested in art or in reading
- simply because he's smart.

They deserve to be mocked and ridiculed because it is absolutely absurd!

Who are the ones promoting gay rights again? Who are the ones supporting transgender bathrooms? Who are the ones who want to ban males from college classrooms? Who are the SJWs who want people to bow down to feminists?

COME THE FUCK ON! THINK FOR A FUCKING SECOND.

These libtards are fucking liars, they know they are liars, but you know what? Can't stop them. They thrive on lies, they love the lies, and they'll continue to lie lie lie lie lie.