Men who police themselves into arbitrary boxes of "masculinity" deny themselves the full scale of humanity

A recent study by NYU used crowdsourced polling to ask 300 men if they have in the past or would in the future google terms such as "how to get girls," "Viagra," "erectile dysfunction," and "penis enlargement." Using that data, the researchers discovered that the subjects with a high level of concern about masculinity were strongly associated with these online search topics."

Darker areas indicate a higher volume of search activity. Source: Google Trends

The researchers then used the geographic locations of the subjects to correlated how such areas voted in the 2016 election. Interestingly enough, they found support for Trump was much higher in the regions that had higher frequencies for search queries such as "buy guns," erectile dysfunction.' Furthermore, this direct relationship was consistent even after accounting for demographic variables in media markets, such as racial composition, education levels and search queries for topics that were unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as "'menopause" or "boob jobs."

The researchers ( Professor Eric Knowles and Sarah DiMuccio) also conducted some regression analysis to compare this curious relationship between voters for the 2008 and 2012 elections. Again, they found direct evidence that signals of toxic masculinity were distinctively stronger in the 2016 elections than in 2012 with the Late Senator John McCain.

Another study of the over 390 House races that featured a Democrat vs. Republican where Republicans gained significantly more support in the areas with higher search queries related to fragile masculinity.

Professor Knowles did report that "there is not significant relationship between fragile masculinity and voting in the 2014 or 2016 congressional elections. This suggests that fragile masculinity has now become a stronger predictor of voting behavior."

Both researchers also noted that these findings are preliminary but deserve further research using more extensive sets of data. They also indicated that fragile masculinity didn't decrease any support for female candidates in the 2018 elections.

Correlation does not imply causation so we cannot say if fragile masculinity will direct voting pools after Trump is gone. According to Edison Media Research exit polling done after the 2016 elections, Trump received 52 percent of male voters and 41 percent of female.

Not surprisingly, Trump performed significantly better amongst white men and women while African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans favored Hillary Clinton by significant margins.

From continually boasting about the size of his dick on national television to fake releases of his “very high” high levels, cadet bone spurs tries very hard to exude machismo which does seem to resonate with some male voters.