“Warn”
As if this is a “bad thing”
To be fair, actually reading the article:
Dr Stefan Robinson, of the University of Winchester, said the results were ‘significant and worrying’ for women and warned there is in emerging culture of sexism and disdain in the way Millennial men view the opposite sex.
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“There are however significant and worrying results here for women. These men perceived women to be the primary regulators of their behavior, and this caused disdain for them as a whole in some instances.“Much in the same way that women are portrayed in contemporary cinema as objects for male gratification several of the participants spoke of women they knew in a generally negative way.”
If there is a problem here, and the actual scientists seem to be focused on THIS part, it is that this is not actually being accompanied by an equal sense of women as humans, but rather a shift to a pattern that has actually been prevalent in patriarchal western culture in general, which is that women are for sex, and other men are for everything else, and as a result women are less than people.
And that women are at fault for all regulation of toxic standards (see the guy who is fine with his buddy knowing he’s into TSwift and Beyonce, but keeps it from the women in his life Because Judgement).
I also think there’s some issues of specific British “lad” culture, vs a lot of North American culture, in making these things play out in different ways.
But a much better and more meaningful headline would be something like “Young Men Show Concerning Rise in Sexism When Increasingly Isolated From Women”. 😛 The problem seems to honestly be that young hetero or mostly hetero men are managing to avoid having to deal with girls for anything except sex, and as such are increasingly seeing them as ONLY for sex, and blaming all problems otherwise on them, rather than having any reason to figure out how to ameliorate relationships with them.
Granted I am by no means convinced that this actually represents a change as such, so much as “social scientists happen to be studying this at the same time that young men are discovering that having intense interpersonal relationships with men is an option, instead of merely remaining totally emotionally isolated while searching for a perfect female emotional receptacle which they will then refer to with socially sanctioned disdain, ie ‘old ball and chain’.” But still. The headline is hideously misleading even if I think the study itself, while identifying a real problem, is also somewhat misguided in its perspective.
tl;dr: Science reporters should be shot.
Yeah, this kinda reads more like ‘Surprise: Enabling Men to Have Close Same-Sex Friendships Doesn’t Actually Solve Sexism’.
Rise of the ‘bromance’ threatens heterosexual relationships, warn social scientists
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