I saw this study a while ago, and while I think it's pretty heavily BS, it did make me wonder: for how many women is being a Rogan listener attractive, versus how many women is being a communist attractive? I cannot name a single woman who would be more interested in someone if she knew they listened to the Dumb Guy Enables Fascism show, but I can name many who would be more interested and comfortable with someone who self-identifies as a communist.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I mean, I'm not into men so I'm probably not the type of woman they're trying to poll, but I'm definitely... being a communist in and of itself won't make someone I wasn't already interested in attractive to me, but I do feel more attracted to a cute girl who's also a commie.

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

So say 70% of women find being a communist unattractive and 70%, find listening to Rogan unattractive but then 20% find being a communist attractive vs none find listening to Rogan attractive? That’s an answer I’d believe.

[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know like 2 women who are joe rogan defenders and they're both about 50 and terf-adjacent if not terfs themselves, and run in a circle that I would describe as "former radlibs" (people who live a sort of bohemian lifestyle but whose politics are stuck in early 2000s radlib-dom and for many of them, regressing in the face of social change)

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah it's gotta be this. Polarizing and "hated by everyone who has an opinion about it" are different but if you only measure negative reactions they look ~~different~~ the same.

EDIT:posting while sleepy