In these Westernised countries there's a strong, linear relationship between religion and sexism.
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Epiphenom: In the West, religious nations are more sexist - 0 views
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let's look at the correlation with a straightforward measure of whether women can be leaders, which was assessed by asking the level of agreement with two questions: “On the whole, men make better political leaders than women do” and “On the whole, men make better business executives than women do.”
Overall, there's a fairly good correlation. But there is an exception, and that's Asian countries. There are only a few Asian countries in the sample, so it's hard to draw sweeping conclusions. But they are all very sexist, whether their citizens are religious (Thailand, Taiwan) or non-religious (China, Hong Kong, Japan) -
The more religious countries also have lower gender empowerment, meaning fewer seats for women in parliament, fewer women in economic decision making positions, and lower female share of income.
Now, the reason for this, it seems to me, is that religion tends to be tied to 'traditional values'. What this analysis suggests is that these traditional values can persist in the absence of religion, but that getting rid of traditional religion seems to be a prerequisite for ditching sexism!
How sexists find love - Coupling: Dating, marriage and other relationships - Salon.com - 0 views
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it not only confirms that there are sexist ideas behind pickup artist strategies -- as has often been the criticism -- but it also shows that sexist women are complicit. "Women are not just sexual gatekeepers," he says. "It's not like they're helpless, non-participants in this interaction. Instead, sexist women are essentially choosing sexist men." This is what's called "assortative mating" in social psychology -- basically, people tend to unconsciously filter out dissimilar individuals. "Even though they don't know that they're using these strategies for these reasons and even though these strategies aren't used because you're inherently trying to show your sexist attitudes, what it essentially does is help sexist people find each other," he says.
Let's face it | YouGov - 0 views
What Do Men Want? | marksimpson.com - 0 views
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I read with interest this YouGov survey published this week which provides some confirming data on the fashionability of face fuzz and its accessorization by males today: ‘stubble’ is reportedly the most popular form of facial hair today – especially with 18-24 year olds (51% say they have facial hair and 80% of those describe it as ‘stubble’). Stubble of course being the most easily adopted and discarded form of facial hair.
But the survey – called ‘Let’s Face It’ — is much less interesting for what it reports than for what it doesn’t. What it’s not facing. At all. The assumptions behind it and the way that compulsory heterosexuality is used to deprive all men of a voice, even about their own bodies.
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The first assumption of course is that the date a male is looking for is necessarily with a woman.
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The second, and closely-related assumption, is that men’s affinity for facial hair is naturally to be measured entirely in terms of what women want:
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Balderdash: Modes of Feminist Rhetoric - 0 views
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I don't see why AWARE should prioritize minor forms of discrimination against men when the vast majority of gender discrimination is not directed at men.
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B: ah, but what "use" do single men have for girls anyway?
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B: Presumably the same 'use' single women have for boys...
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More sexism you won't see AWARE protesting: single men cannot adopt girls
Text of Adoption of Children Act: Restrictions on making adoption orders.
"An adoption order shall not be made in any case where the sole applicant is a male and the infant in respect of whom the application is made is a female unless the court is satisfied that there are special circumstances which justify as an exceptional measure the making of an adoption order."
About Mythbusters, Robot Eyes, Feminism, and Jokes - Skepchick - 0 views
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There is a small chance that this man meant nothing sexual in his comment, despite the fact that I had clearly indicated my wish to go to bed (alone) and the fact that the bar had coffee and therefore there was absolutely zero reason to go to anyone’s hotel room to have it. Sure. There’s a chance.
But regardless, the point I was making was that people need to be aware of how their comments might make someone feel extraordinarily uncomfortable and even feel as though they are in danger. This person failed to recognize that even though I had been speaking about little else all day long.
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Certainly it made you uncomfortable: as I said, it’s a bad way to approach someone (especially a lone person on an elevator). I wasn’t there and so didn’t see body language etc, but I was just noting it’s very difficult to say he meant more than wanting to talk one-on-one to an interesting and important person in the skeptical world. You’re assuming he wanted to hit on you or was propositioning you (and that might in fact be a reasonable assumption), but an assumption is still an assumption. Perhaps he’d do the same awkward approach with PZ? Dunno.
I’m not defending him, just muddying the water as to motives.
The Privilege Delusion - Skepchick - 0 views
Richard Dawkins and male privilege | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 0 views
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a woman, being alone on that elevator with that man was a potential threat, and a serious one. You may not be able to just press a button and walk away — perhaps he has a knife, or a gun, or will simply overpower you. When there’s no way to know, you err on the side of safety. And what makes this worse is that most men don’t understand this, so women are constantly put into situations ranging from uncomfortable to downright scary.
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Put even more simply: this wasn’t a guy chewing gum at her. This was a potential sexual assault.
So you may not think anything bad happened to Rebecca on that elevator, but something bad did indeed happen. He didn’t have to physically assault her for the situation to be bad. The atmosphere in there was enough to make it bad. And Rebecca was absolutely right to talk about it and raise awareness of it.
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we all need to make sure that all men understand the woman’s point of view, or else this type of thing will continue to happen… and people will continue to dismiss it as no big deal.
It is a big deal. If Dawkins — a leader in the critical thinking movement and a man known for defending women against religious oppression — can take such a dismissive stance, it’s clear that we have a long way to go. I don’t know if it was sexism on Dawkins’ part or just plain obtuseness, but this attitude is shared by far too many men. It trivializes the justifiable fear women have to live with as well as their point of view, and that’s just plain wrong.
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Money for nothing and the dicks for free « Quiet Riot Girl - 0 views
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“Here at Candy Rain, we have a simple policy” one of the party’s organizers yelled into the mic at one point. “Show us your dick or get the fuck out!!!”
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How would I feel if some guy yelled “show us your tits or get the fuck out”? Not very good, I reckon. In objectifying men like this, one might argue Candy Rain apes the worst aspects of the patriarchy. Shouldn’t feminism be working towards a world in which nobody gets objectified?
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despite the fact that they were showing their bodies off for our (adult) entertaiment that night, men still have all the power. So even if they were being objectified in an uncomfortable way for a few hours, it said nothing about the underlying system in place. It’s simply not the same. It’s like that medieval holiday where the masters served the servants; it was hilarious because it was so unusual, and everything went back to the way it had been shortly thereafter’
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Where men looking at women is seen as riddled with power relations, but women looking at men is liberating. As for men looking at each other or themselves? That is not mentioned.
'Obedient Wives' Club: Malaysia Group Says Good Sex Is A Duty - 0 views
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"Islam compels us to be obedient to our husband. Whatever he says, I must follow. It is a sin if I don't obey and make him happy," said Ummu
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The club, founded by a fringe Islamic group known as Global Ikhwan, has been dismissed by politicians and activists as a throwback to Medieval times and an insult to modern women of Malaysia. But the group's activities, which previously included the setting up of a Polygamy Club, show that pockets of conservative Islamic ideas still thrive in Malaysia.
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"Unfortunately even today, there are still many Muslim women who are ignorant of their rights or culturally inhibited to exercise their rights in full," said Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, a female Muslim minister in charge of family policy.
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A Test for Sexist Remarks | Stop Sexist Remarks - 0 views
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here are a few proposed questions to test whether a remark is sexist:
Is the remark designed to make women (but not men) uncomfortable?
Does the remark limit women's (but not men's) freedom of expression or behavior?
Is the remark likely to make those who hear it take women less than seriously because of their gender?
Could the remark also be applied to men and make sense?
Does the remark make generalizations about individuals based on gender?
A Game Of Three Halves « Guardian Watch - 0 views
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/26/deborah-orr-andy-gray-sky-sports-sexism
I have lost count of how many articles I have seen in The Guardian about the sacking of Sky’s Andy Gray. They have all been similar and all have taken the stance that the decision was a good one by the Media Moguls, and a sign that sexism in the workplace, and even in football itself, is being challenged.
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Deborah Orr positions herself as ‘the voice of reason’ in amongst the madness. She makes valid points about the context of Sky within the Murdoch Empire and in relation to the NOTW phone-tapping scandal. But she also uses the story to make some old, tired, middle-class feminist strikes against pornography and the sex industry.
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Andy Gray’s sexist behaviour didn’t occur in a ‘vacuum’ writes Orr. And she contextualises his behaviour in the culture of ‘lads mags’, ‘objectification of women’ and the ‘macho’ environment he grew up in, that of industrial Glasgow.
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Sexism in football, and comments made amongst men, are often more to do with their own sense of their masculinity than to do with women.
Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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The Vatican today made the "attempted ordination" of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism.
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The amount of sexism within the Vatican, and the Catholic churches, is so high I sometimes wonder why female Catholics willingly be one? The promise of a good afterlife to compensate an inferior, subordinated present one?
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Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime.
Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors.
John Hooper in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 July 2010 14.58 BST
How the sex bias prevails - 0 views
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Heilman also determined that four in five volunteers preferred to have James as their boss. Andrea seemed less likeable merely because she was a woman who happened to be a leader.
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Joan Roughgarden and Ben Barres are biologists at Stanford University. Both are researchers at one of the premier academic institutions in the country; both are tenured professors. Both are transgendered people.
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Ben Barres did not transition to being a man until he was 50. For much of her early life, Barbara Barres was oblivious to questions of sexism.
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How the sex bias prevails
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May 15, 2010
Booth Babe Confessions - Booth babe confessions - Gizmodo - 0 views
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Here's your job: Stand for ten hours in a noisy convention center. (You might want to wear something revealing.) Try to get the attention of thousands of men—and a few women—who rush by. And don't forget to smile.
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Many of these intelligent, charming women had a sense of reluctance when it came to taking members of the press seriously. Often we heard girls talk of men who don't understand that a "press badge isn't an excuse" to fondle them as one might touch "everything shiny and pretty" in the booths.
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A booth babe's job is to lure convention attendees into her booths, to do a product demonstration or to pass people off to a coworker. That's fine. But when misunderstandings occur—or attendees forget they're interacting with living, breathing human beings—some attendees turn into jerks, pressing intimidatingly close and crossing boundaries.
Some slip these girls their hotel keys, pressuring them for a visit later in the day. Others mistake professional flirting for actual flirting and try pick-up lines.
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The beige pair of chinos in question were purchased in London at Madhouse's flagship Oxford Street store last month.
The incident shows the power of Twitter to embarrass companies which make such gaffes. Last year, Topman was forced to apologise and remove a range of t-shirts from shelves after Twitter users said they were sexist.
One t-shirt said: "Nice new girlfriend - what breed is she?"
Vanessa Truskey, a publicity executive, commenting on the Madhouse trouser label, tweeted: "Lately I can't tell which decade I'm living in. What brand are those trousers?! I can only assume that's a joke."