The biggest dating red flag for men is when someone...

[ecstatic]

According to a recent survey by Change Research, the biggest dating red flag for men is when someone identifies as a communist. A whopping 64% said this political leaning would be a turnoff.
...

More than half, 55%, of women said identifying as a communist is a red flag, but other sociopolitical stances were more problematic.

A potential partner saying that there are only two genders or saying "all lives matter" were both bigger red flags than being a communist — so was having no hobbies.

Being a "MAGA Republican" was the biggest red flag, with 76% of women saying this was not a desirable trait.

link: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/64-of-men-say-this-is-their-no-1-dating-red-flag-according-to-recent-survey/4893267/

That's the biggest red flag? WTF?

[Elessar Zappa]

1. How many communists are there in the wild?

I wouldn’t expect that to be a common identification.

[calguy]

3. Feral commies?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. US males tend to lean RW magat and they call "communist"

... any kind of "wokeness" or DEI or affirmative action or ordinary government social programs. (Talking wide averages and tendencies.)

US women tend to be more caring and to care more about caring programs and have more empathy than the males (again, averages).

magats label everything left of center-right as "communist".

But we have always known that women tend to wiser than men (on average).

[Act_of_Reparation]

19. Citation needed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Any reasonable demographic breakdown of the 2020 election shows it

This is the most obvious one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Voter_demographics

[MyNameIsJonas]

29. You mean white males.

According to your link:

79% of Black men voted for Biden.
59% of Latino men voted for Biden.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. No, look at "Males". Your true facts don't contradict what I wrote

Men 53% Trump. That is a lean. I wrote about men and women. I did not write about "racial" demographics. The Original Post was about men and women, not about Hispanics vs African Americans.

Women 57% Biden. That is a lean the other way, a little stronger.

[MyNameIsJonas]

40. Again: you're talking white males.

You're the one who mentioned, as you put it, US males tend to lean MAGA.

No. White males do. There is a huge difference, as your link proves: men of color do not lean MAGA.

[paleotn]

42. Technically, you're both right. Looking at US males in general...

white male attitudes drown out those of the black men subset.

[MyNameIsJonas]

48. I know we're both right. I am just pointing out it's a white male problem.

In fact, MAGA is a white person problem in general.

Trump won white women with 55%.

The only reason Trump lost the woman vote, and why this whole point makes sense, is because women of color overwhelmingly supported Biden. He won 90% of Black women and 69% of Latino women.

White men also are the largest portion of the voting electorate (making up 35% of the vote according to the poster's link) - followed by white women (32%). The only reason Trump is as competitive as he is is solely because of white people in general - not just white men (but women).

If only white women voted, Trump would still win comfortably.

[paleotn]

57. Umm, that's kind of what I said.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

51. No. Do not put words in anyone's mouth. I mean what I write.

It doesn't matter that your facts are true, they are not the set of people I am writing about, and not the set of people the OP is writing about.

You are writing about subsets of the people the OP and my posts are about. Your points are valid, but they are not the full set of the OP. There was some incredulity about the set of all males in the country. My reference explains the foundation of the statistic in the OP by looking at voters as proxies for the whole population of males and females, a valid proposition because of the political nature of the issues in the OP.

It is a cheap disrespectful tactic to try to put words in people's mouths.

Please stop trying.

Make your points, but make your points as your own points.

[MyNameIsJonas]

53. It's a white male issue.

Men of color do not lean MAGA and your blanket statement should have qualifiers added to it because it's insanely broad and disingenuous. In the end, MAGA is a result of white men and white women. They both overwhelmingly voted Trump.

Men don't lean MAGA. White men do. Unless you don't consider men of color valid.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

55. Post your point at the OP. Your beef is with the OP, not me. Please stop. . . nt

[MyNameIsJonas]

64. I have no beef. But my reply is to the person who said US males lean MAGA.

I am pointing out the link they shared shows that it's actually white males who lean MAGA. It's really that simple.

[Act_of_Reparation]

30. No, it won't.

It will tell you who voted for what candidates. It won't tell you anything useful about intelligence or empathy, because voting polls don't measure these things.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. I gave a solid answer to your request. You should have been more specific in your request

You asked for a citation.

I gave you a good citation.

What citation should I have given you? The citation that confirms the first fact I stated in my post (in the first few words of the subject line). The most prominent fact.

I gave you what you requested.

When you read my post, you will also see that I wrote nothing about intelligence. Since you surely distinguish between intelligence and wisdom I am at a loss as to why you would think wrote about intelligence when I actually wrote about wisdom. Did you read carelessly?

[paleotn]

44. Good luck finding empathetic people, male or female, among Trump voters.

Personally, I think this all centers on fragile masculinity where empathy is considered weakness. An epidemic among US males of all types. Not surprising given that our society frames empathy and masculinity as mutually exclusive.

[czarjak]

36. The rubes label Dims with it all day everyday.

[paleotn]

45. The right wouldn't know an actual communist if one fell on them.

[msongs]

2. or when a prospective date asks if you rent or own.... nt

[Basic LA]

4. My biggest red flag are communist ski instructors

From Madagascar.

[Mr.Bill]

5. When I clicked on this thread

I got a pop-up ad for a senior dating website.

[mahina]

6. That's a little bit funny

My biggest dating red flag is when they stalk me.

Kind of puts a person off the whole thing

[Chainfire]

8. I would consider dating a Communist, but a MAGA gal wouldn't get any consideration.

A Communist probably has a heart if not a brain; a MAGA woman would have neither.

[getagrip_already]

9. You mean its not....

Asking you your mother's maiden name, your first pets name, the street where you grew up, or the name of the first school you attended?

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Jen!

[onecaliberal]

11. Another piece of anecdotal evidence that dump cannot win an election.

[ecstatic]

15. I really hope so. Especially the 76% anti-magat number for women. lol nt

[onecaliberal]

20. My kiddo was "talking" to someone for a little while.

I noticed that I hadn’t heard her mention the person in a while so I asked her about it. She said omg mom, he was a repuke, that’s a deal breaker. It IS a thing.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

28. When I was single, I refused to date women who were MAGAs

A night alone doing what I wanted to do was preferable to that.

[onecaliberal]

32. Word. What would they even have in common?

[czarjak]

37. Good to hear.

[paleotn]

46. Good kiddo.

[MyNameIsJonas]

31. Most Americans hate Trump.

The problem isn't Trump getting enough votes to win - it's Biden losing votes to third party candidates so that Trump wins again.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Depends on who is trying to get dates.

Dating Site For Trump Supporters
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/05/make-dating-great-again-dating-site-for-trump-supporters-officially-launches/?utm_source=site-share
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(They don’t care if you’re married or not)
Some reports have also noted that, once a person gets past the initial sign-up page, he or she can choose "happily married" or "unhappily married" as a status before finalizing a profile and meeting new potential dates.
http://www.wral.com/nc-couple-pitching-trump-dating-site/17354987/

They claim they fixed that.

Riddleberger's past includes a felony conviction for taking indecent liberties with a child in in 1995.

[ecstatic]

18. lol. I just checked and they all seem to be out of business

Even the "trumpsingles" site at the top of google appears to be blank/nonfunctional.

Might as well name the site inceldating.com. LOL

[Silent3]

13. No commie's gonna grab mah means uh reproduckshun!

[Sneederbunk]

35. Or steal your essence.

[paleotn]

47. Precious bodily fluids.

May I suggest pure grain alcohol and rain water. Can't be too careful, ya know.

[NickB79]

14. 76% of women turned off by MAGA is the bigger story, IMO

That's awesome.

[ShazzieB]

27. Exactly!

I had to go back and look at the title of the op again, to make sure I read it right.

This is definitely a case of burying the lede!

[Xavier Breath]

16. Yep, nothing turns me off more than a date droning on and on

about five-year plans and tractor factories.

[uponit7771]

56. No it sounds consistent, MAGA is anti gen z so they're even a bigger red flag

[DavidDvorkin]

17. In my dating days, I never dated anyone who said she was a communist

But maybe that just shows how sneaky communists are.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. How many people of any gender identify as Communists?

The article is completely bogus.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

54. Doesn't matter. maga males & others FEAR communists

magas are more prone than average people to "manufactured insecurity" (Astra Taylor, 2023 Massey Lecturer (MLK Jr was 1967 lecturer)).

The right wing media push paranoia and fear. Anything with a tinge of socialism gets tarred with "communist!". Insecurity sells eyeballs to advertisers for media company profit. Even WaPo and NYT are prone to it, as revealed by a study of front page stories posted here yesterday.

magas want to preserve their white privilege which they see as being under attack and eroding. They also see themselves as losing jobs and power and want to blame somebody. Available at hand are the old John Birch Society / Sen. McCarthy tropes from the 1950s.

"A red under every bed" They can't use that hoary old phrase since they adopted red as their colour.

[Danmel]

23. The biggest red flag to me was being rude to waitstaff or store employees

I can't say I've ever thought about asking about communism.

[treestar]

24. Borowitz? The Onion?

[NNadir]

25. I call my sons communists whenever they do something I don't like, or don't agree with me on movies or books.

It's a habit from my youth, mocking my father (who I loved very much). It was his habit, more seriously than I do.

I briefly identified as a communist when I was in my early 20s, although I never joined the party, went to a meeting, or anything like that.
I just used to say it to piss people off..

[czarjak]

38. Soccer was a Communist Plot.

Conspiracy Theories then, Conspiracy Theories now, Conspiracy Theories tomorrow. Right-Wing thing.

[DBoon]

26. Date a Trotskyite instead

They have more fun than communists

[NNadir]

58. Well, I briefly did that once, but she said, "I'd like to pick your brain." After that I had a stabbing headache.

[spanone]

39. Rather date a communist than a magat

any day.

[Dave says]

41. I just say I'm an Anarcho-syndicalist

Shuts most people right up. Except one - she’s my wife now.

[Prairie Gates]

62. I'm not a communist, I'm a Marxist-Leninist

[TSExile]

43. Was this study conducted in 1962?

Yes, MAGA is definitely the red flag (or should it be red hat?) in my case. While undergoing counseling at the rape crisis center in 2021, I told the therapist that not only would I never marry someone enamored with T**** and his special blend of hate and violence, I wouldn't go on a date with him. I guess I feel if someone is pro-T**** that person is also pro-rape and anti-woman. Too harsh?

[Prairie Gates]

63. 86% of male respondents were members of John Birch Society

[DemocraticPatriot]

49. The biggest dating "red flag" for me, is when she destroys the living room

in a fit of rage which climaxes with her rolling around on the floor, screaming--- after I barely dodge a thrown marble ash-tray aimed at my head....

Compared with such, saying that you are a communist on some date-site profile does not even register...

(unfortunately, that didn't happen until the 'dating' stage was passed, and the cohabitating stage was well underway... true story)



'Communist'?? That would actually be on my "turn-on list", not a red flag at all...
as long as she was or became a Democratic-voting far leftist...

Hell, according to the GQP, all of us Democrats are "Communists" anyway--
even though few of them know what the word means anymore...


Funny, I had not recalled that incident for a long time... Needless to say, we are no longer together, but in her "defense", it only happened once. Of course, once was more than enough...

The next day I dutifully cleaned up the mess......

[betsuni]

50. "Does he wear bland, drab, olive-colored clothing?"

[NotVeryImportant]

65. lol!!

[Marcus IM]

52. Plenty of commiephobes here too.

I get called a commie just for advocating for an end to the US extraterritorial sanctions on Cuba.
Almost always by men.

[RandomNumbers]

59. I know some pretty far left folks

but they don't identify as communist.

Considering that communism generally comes with totalitarianism, and then becomes fake communism that ultimately benefits the ruling class - "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" - most leftists who recognize that aren't very interested in it. Democratic socialism is a completely different concept. Thing is, right-wingers and the politically naive like to conflate the two.

[RobinA]

60. I Obviously

haven't dated enough in my 65 years, I've never dated anyone who identified as a Communist. Not that there's anything wrong with that in my book.

[Prairie Gates]

61. Increases your chances of getting blacklisted at Hop Sing's

They named names.