The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves…
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
I know I’ve reblogged this before but it’s so important.
A majority of millennial men failed to see women as equals, according to the study, which looked at how college biology students viewed their classmates’ intelligence and achievements, the Harvard Business Review reported.
Among the findings:
In every biology class surveyed, a man was seen as the most celebrated student, even in instances where women earned significantly better grades.
Men were also found to overestimate the intelligence of their male classmates over that of female ones.
Men continued exaggerating their assessments of the male peers, despite unequivocal evidence that their female peers were performing better.
Women, conversely, weren’t found to display a bias: Their assessments of fellow classmates tended to be spot-on.
The National Institutes of Health researchers pointed out that female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors drop out at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts.
“The reasons for this difference are complex, and one possible contributing factor is the social environment women experience in the classroom,” they wrote.
Still, scores of men are under the impression that they’ve become the target of reverse sexism. Conservative columnist John Hawkins ranted in Town Hall last year:
“Men have it rougher in America than most people realize. In part, that’s because they’re one of the few groups (along with white people, conservatives, and Christians) it’s cool to crap on at every opportunity. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a nonstop assault on masculinity in America.”
But research has confirmed the reality of gender bias against women. A staggering 90 percent of women reported experiencing gender harassment in the workplace, a 2010 University of Michigan study found. The results suggest that such harassment had the purpose of driving women out of jobs and not the generally assumed motivation of trying to draw women into relationships.
“One could argue that, in these instances, ‘sexual harassment is used both to police and discipline the gender outlaw: the woman who dares to do a man’s job is made to pay,’” the researchers wrote, quoting an article by Katherine M. Franke, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.
As for millennial men specifically, they have been less accepting of female leaders than their older male counterparts, according to a 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults residing in the United States, the Harvard Business Review reports.
Half of Millenial men said their careers would take priority over their partners’.
Three-fourths of women, on the other hand, said their careers would be at least as important as their husbands’.
oh look its the shit women have been saying all the damn time and antifeminists stamp their feet and cry about
Yikes
Scientific studies confirming these issues aren’t new or rare yet said issues are still denied most fiercely by people who claim to just be “logical.”
interesting how so many people will agree that “mothering is the hardest/most intense/most important job in the world” but the people who perform the work of mothering for money (daycare workers and nannies) are payed shit wages and nobody cares. it’s almost as if we glorify motherhood to convince women to have children but actually consider the gendered work of caretaking to be worth next to nothing.
i thought you guys would find this thread i wrote interesting
this is a very real problem! and unfortunately, something similar happens to people of color and adults as well. always try and tie it down to something else when, in fact, the disorder has been clearly present the whole time. it’s so damaging.
“Study: Female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status: Poorly performing males are hostile toward a female teammate but submissive toward a male teammate.”
small boob privilege is so real like…. bralettes… underboob tattoos… going braless?? not looking hyper sexual at all times ???? running comfortably? i could go on
YAS finally someone said this
Re: the “not looking hyper-sexual at all times”: I was troubled to notice at an all-women’s networking and mentoring workshop in academic philosophy – which is about ¾ male (like, worse than math and physics) – that the vast majority of the women there had very small breasts (and I include myself here), and an unusual number of them were not wearing bras and it looked fine. I strongly suspect that small-breasted women do better in a male-dominated, in many ways toxically masculine discipline like philosophy because they can pull off the androgynous look, and coming off as more masculine gets you taken more seriously. Not to mention that your ideas get more attention the less attention your breasts draw.
the stereotype that women talk more than men is infinitely amusing to me because men are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up
i hope this post gets popular enough that i hurt a man’s feelings
It’s not a stereotype it’s a proven fact you femanazi piece of shit.
lmao there it is
You wanna talk proven facts? This shit’s been done, son: researcher Dale Spencer in Australia used audio and video tape to independently evaluate who talked the most in mixed-gender university classroom discussions. Regardless of the gender ratio of the students, whether the instructor was deliberately trying to encourage female participation or not, men always talked more—whether the metric was minutes of talking or number of words spoken.
Moreover, men literally have no clue how much they talk. When Spencer asked students to evaluate their perception of who talked more in a given discussion, women were pretty accurate; but men perceived the discussion as being “equal” when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time.
Spencer’s conclusion, if I may parahprase: you only think we talk too much because you’d rather we were silent.
Don’t fuck with me, asshole, I’m a scientist.
This reminds me of that figure about crowd scenes in movies – I can only find the one saying that women make up about 17% of movie crowds (here’s that and more depressing statistics), but I thought I remembered reading that when women made up more than 30% of the crowd, (male?) viewers perceived the crowd as being more than half women.
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’.
Loki is the Philosopher King 