Sexism Toward Women and Men Overlaps Substantially in their Underlying Motivations and Cognitive Distortions: Characterizing the psychology of sexism and prejudice and challenging the narrative
Sexism Toward Women and Men Overlaps Substantially in their Underlying Motivations and Cognitive Distortions: Characterizing the psychology of sexism and prejudice and challenging the narrative While sexism toward women is frequently discussed as a social problem, little attention is paid to sexism toward men, and sexism toward men has not been well characterized or researched. It is a popular belief that sexism is only perpetuated by men due to having more social power, and that sexism from women is justified and causally different from sexism from men. In this paper, I report results of an investigation into the nature and cause of sexism when perpetrated by either sex. It is demonstrated that sexism regardless of which sex it is directed to is the same thing caused by a shared set of traits and biases, which overlap with other prejudices that have very similar correlates (Cloudfindings 2024b). Using the dataset from Cloudfindings (2024a), I created four more variables, two being the...