Monday, January 24, 2011

Benevolent Sexism

This looks like a nicely put together discussion regarding a topic that people often have trouble accepting. I found this in 'Medical News Today'. Please have a look.

"Research conducted at the University of Granada warns about the negative effects of the so-called "benevolent sexism", a term used for apparently "positive" ideas and attitudes of men towards women, which are based on the assumption that men must take care of and sacrifice themselves for women.

The research revealed that when individuals are told that a man has attitudes socially considered as "good" towards his wife - even although those attitudes are sexist - they tend to justify sexual violence within the couple and to exonerate the man (as they consider that he is entitled to have sexual relations with his wife) and to blame the woman (as they consider that it is a woman's duty to sexually satisfy her husband). "


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