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“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/10/28/maga-dating-scene-washington/
    Archived: https://archive.ph/VY8Tu

    Instead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are … “Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.

    If she had it her way, she would be married and expecting her first kid. She says a lot of her colleagues at the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group whose website says “in order to save America — we have to save the family,” are settling down and having children. But it’s rough out there.

    Newly arrived MAGA singles face a percentage problem: 92.5 percent of the city voted for Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.

    A perfect moment of discovering the discrepancy between MAGA ideology on “paper” and in reality.

    The article is a fun read.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Even MAGAs have student loans, and they are a major reason that people are avoiding marriage. Nobody wants to get married and double their student loan debt.

      Worse, what if you didn’t have student loan debt, and you were considering marrying someone with tens of thousands of student loan debt. Would you still marry them, and make that debt yours? Or maybe just live together, and not officially take on that debt?

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 days ago

      It’s also not even in the same galaxy as ‘Leopards Ate My Face’.

      There are countless places to post generic ‘let’s mock MAGA being on the receiving end of anything negative’, themed communities don’t need to get polluted with it too.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        21·
        5 days ago

        It’s also not even in the same galaxy as ‘Leopards Ate My Face’.

        I was initially going to write something about that. It’s not your bog standard cliché LAMF, that’s for sure. It’s more complex. And that’s a plus in my book.

        Whichever way you cut it though, it’s definitely in the same galaxy (or neighborhood, to take it down a few notches).

        • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          It’s not. At all. This is the sequence of events of a LAMF:

          1. Advocacy for a politician/political entity to do X, by person/group Y
          2. Y’s advocacy is based on the expectation that X will be done to/only affect others, incorrectly assumed, because the politician/entity never specified such (it’s not called the ‘leopards eating [demographic’s] faces party’, after all)
          3. X indeed affects Y as well
          4. Y is surprised that 3 is true, though they shouldn’t be, as they’re the ones who made the assumption in 2, without any good reason to (this unjustified reaction is the LAMF moment)

          For example, if Y voted to cut funding for public services, then got upset that a public service they use on got its funding cut, that’s a textbook LAMF.

          “MAGA singles are having trouble finding romantic partners” meets literally none of the above criteria. There isn’t even an X (re #1)!