UPI: Both men and women maintain sexism

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-11-17 22:37

Article here. Excerpt:

'MIAMI, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Both men and women respond in a more hostile way to a woman who violates sex-role expectations, U.S. researchers say.

Co-authors Blaine Fowers, professor at the University of Miami, and Alyssa Fowers, a student at Duke University, said even though both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in U.S. society, sexism is a form of social hierarchy that is beneficial to men and detrimental to women.

The study, published in the journal of Sex Roles, also found women show a strong preference for benevolent sexism -- portraying women as relatively weak, placing them on a pedestal of purity and suggesting they need protection and guidance -- over hostile sexism, the derogatory portrayals of women.
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The researchers said both hostile sexism and benevolent sexism are harmful, because both support a gender hierarchy that limits and marginalizes women.'

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Did they study how people react when men don't live up to gender-role expectations?

Oh yeah, that's right, men don't have that problem. OK, sorry, my mistake...

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-11-18 04:34

More arm waiving indicating, of course, that women are disadvantaged and men are advantaged. Of course, we are supposed to reach the conclusion that women must get still more special privileges in order to compensate for this horrible injustice. Problem is, there is no data to substantiate these conclusions, at least nothing was cited in the article. I wouldn't be surprised if there is no data period, of this wasn't just a case of some Feminist academics dreaming up something that sounds interesting, hoping that it would be published...

Another web reference to the same research indicates a very different conclusion, specifically that both men and women seek to maintain the sex-role status quo. So my guess is that the author of this article is a man-hating feminist who has twisted this research to support her (and it is probably a her) biases. For another rendition of this research, see

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/rethinking-sexism-daughter-father-team-examines-how-society-maintains-status-quo-27197.html

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Wed, 2009-11-18 08:21

This is easy to debunk: ask any woman (or man) what she/he thinks of her friend's husband who is "Mister Mom".
(also, ask them if they'd marry a mister mom themselves.)

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Fri, 2009-11-20 02:20