From the article:
Sadly, the woman I briefly dated is not alone in her beliefs. In a survey of over 1,000 women, conducted by Glamour in 2016, 63% of women said they wouldn’t date a man who’s had sex with another man. (This isn’t just men who identify as bi. This includes all men who’ve experimented with another man, even if it only happened once!) Still, 47% of women said they’ve been attracted to another woman, and 31% of women have had a sexual experience with another woman.
NOTE: This is not the titular study but is used to establish context.
The study can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2018.1563935?journalCode=wjbi20
If anybody happens to be able to find the fulltext please feel free to link it.
this is because of insecurity from these womans in dating bi-men, or they see them as less manly, and thus “weak” in patriarchy’s view?
My (bi) ex gf was quite insecure and said she couldn’t date a bi man because she would get jealous of all his friends rather than just his female ones.
Or insecurity that their partner is actually more attracted to men than to them
Women know they can never compete with another man’s love /s
less manly does not equal weak.
It actually does. That’s what the whole concept refers to.
Whether it’s true is a different story, but that is exactly what is meant when a person says “less manly”. They mean less capable of competing with other men in tests of will and strength.
Or that they are more promptly to cheat, and that they now have to care for his male friends too on top of their female ones.