The fickle face of feminism: Women are fine with sexism… as long as it benefits them, says new study

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-10-23 18:03

Article here. Excerpt:

"While wolf whistling and pay inequality might rankle, it seems that not all sexist behaviour is seen as a bad thing, according to a new study.

'Benevolent sexism', where women are treated as helpless entities in need of protection, is seen in a positive light by many - particularly those women with a strong sense of entitlement.

The results appeared in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Auckland and titled The Allure of Sexism: Psychological Entitlement Fosters Women’s Endorsement of Benevolent Sexism Over Time.
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Benevolent sexism, meanwhile, is the term used to describe the actions of those men and women who believe females depend on their male partners for everything from money to guidance and find it difficult to exist independently.
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'[We wanted to see] whether or not benevolent sexism is attractive to women because of its promises of benefits to individual women under the conditions of being cared for and provided for by a man within an intimate relationship.'
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The study, which spoke to 2,700 women and 1,600 New Zealand men, found that women with a greater sense of entitlement - in other words, those that feel they have a 'right' to the best things in life - were more likely to agree with statements such as 'Women should be cherished and protected by men.'

'Even though both men and women have these kind of "entitled" tendencies to be reward-oriented and status-focused — the "cherish and protect" attitudes of benevolent sexism seem to take advantage of these qualities in women only,' added Hammond.

'This is an example of how benevolent sexism is an insidious set of ideas which appear to exploit "niceness" to encourage women to hold more sexist beliefs.'"

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... and saved the thousands of clams it took to come up with a conclusion that anyone with two brain cells to rub together already knows.

People in a position to exploit it for their own benefit *almost never* seek to relieve themselves of it. I mean, really, if you had a job that you knew paid you "too much" and you were really not being too productive, would you just march right into your boss' office and say, "Boss, I get paid too much for this job and don't do nearly enough! You need either to pile on the work or can my useless behind!"

No. That's what most people call "crazy". And this is why a men's rights movement is needed. Women as a class will not divest themselves of their positions as recipients of male patronage unless two things happen: men stop acting as their patrons and women realize that to be "patronized" may feel good in a sense, but ultimately undermines their own independence and ability to be self-sufficient if not also self-actualized.

I can think of a few very successful and dare I say it, self-actualized women in history right off the top of my head:

Joan of Arc
Catherine the Great
Queen Elizabeth I
Susan B. Anthony and Eliz. Cady Stanton (regardless of what you may think of their particular beliefs)
Golda Meir
Margaret Thatcher

That's just a few I could think of yet without even Googling. :) And I seriously doubt any one of them had a freaking Cinderella Complex.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-10-23 23:35

Women are sexist, but they are fond of accusing men of that.
Women are violent, but they are fond of accusing men of that too.
Women are selfish, but they are fond of accusing men of that as well.
You can continue the list...
Whatever feminists claim men do, you can bet the feminists are doing.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2013-10-24 05:52

A reminder that women participate in the Holocaust. (And not because men forced them to)

http://chronicle.com/article/Handmaidens-of-Genocide/142357/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Submitted by bronxman on Thu, 2013-10-24 18:03