Why Conservative Men Are Terrified of Educated Women
Start with a scene most people recognize. A woman mentions her graduate degree at a dinner party, or corrects a statistic in a meeting, or simply holds her ground in an argument she knows she is winning. And somewhere across the table or the room, a man who had been perfectly comfortable a moment ago suddenly is not. He gets quiet, or he gets loud. He pivots to condescension. He finds a reason to dismiss whatever she just said.
You have seen this. You may have lived it.
In 2015, psychologists Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg at Princeton University studied how men respond when women…
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