"Sexism often comes with a smile, study finds"
Article here. Excerpt:
'Benevolent sexism makes men more smiley when they interact with women, and that's bad news. Men who put women on a pedestal may be the wolves in sheep clothing hindering gender equality.
A new study examining the nonverbal cues thrown out during interactions between men and women finds that men who have high ratings of "benevolent sexism" — attitudes towards women that are well-intentioned but perpetuate inequality — finds that smiling and other positive cues increase when this kind of sexism is prevalent.
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"Basically, the argument is that these two properties — hostile sexism and benevolent sexism — work together to maintain inequality," said lead author Jin Goh, a graduate student at Northeastern University. Most people think of sexist men as being dominant aggressors who believe that women should be put down in society. But other men believe that women should be treated with kindness and love, but still don't see them as being capable of achieving the same things as men.'
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More men-are-never-right junk social science
You can always spot feminist-inspired or -funded "studies" b/c the outcomes are non-sequiturs and invariably suggest no viable alternate interpretations other than "It's sexism!" or similar. In this case, men being nice to women is sexist and perpetuates fill-in-the-blank. So's men not being nice to women. So's men being neither. Men ignoring or not interacting with/including women is sexist. Now, it's sexist to do so.
Feminism is all about demonizing men. The headline itself of this article call men who are nice to women "wolves"; think the paper'd dare say that about women who're nice to men? The agenda is promulgated via this kind of junk science.