Left-wing women are learning to love right-wing men. Political division has become a sexual fetish.

Today, in online political fendoms, people behind enemy lines are often seen as potential sexual

conquests. Right-wing men want a liberal art ho, whereas some leftist women lust after the right-wing

anon. It's hard to pin down discourse like this sometimes,

but this trend is also substantiated in studies about the dating patterns of progressive women.

What do you think about that?

Yeah, I wonder about these sort of media trends, these headlines, because often the reason

why they get so much interest is because they're sort of at odds with our intuitions, right? And I know you've

spoken with plenty of people about this idea of assortative mating. We tend to be attracted to

people who are somewhat similar to ourselves. So then when you have this flashy headline,

you know, right wing men want the left wing art ho, the left wing art hose want the Republican

MAGA bro or something. You know, it's a little edgy, it's a little catches us off

guard. But I think there's, you know, to the extent that it might be true, you know, if you think about

what are the qualities that women find attractive in men, sort of self-sufficiency, ambition,

income, you know, all the kinds of qualities that are associated with sort of a masculine guy.

And then you look at sort of the voting patterns of men and you find that the predictors of

voting for the conservative parties also tend to be the traits that women tend to find attractive.

So if you look at self-identified, if you ask men, you know, how masculine do you feel versus how feminine do you feel the higher men rate themselves as masculine, the more likely they are to support a conservative political candidate and the more or the less masculine they feel, the more likely they are to support a left-wing candidate.

And then you can ask other

questions about income. There was a really funny study a few years ago in the UK about height,

that there's a sort of a small but significant correlation between height and voting for conservative

political parties. I don't know if that would hold up today. This was like 2016,

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