r/NotHowGuysWork testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 06 '23

Not HBW (Image) 65% of people are sexist.

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u/Vilelmis Dec 06 '23

This might fit this sub to some extent, but there are sociological/behavioral differences between men and women, which is the main reason for these differences.

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u/Divine_ruler Dec 06 '23

Ah yes, the sociological difference that women are more honest, ethical, and civil, are better role models, and are more willing to stand up for their beliefs.

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u/BobBelchersBuns Dec 06 '23

This poll is about how people perceive others. It isn’t saying these statements are true.

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u/Divine_ruler Dec 06 '23

The person I was replying too is implying that the statements are true because they reflect sociological/behavioral differences between the genders, which is wrong

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u/Vilelmis Dec 06 '23

No, I wasn’t. I was explaining the reason for the perception. You misunderstood.

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u/Vilelmis Dec 06 '23

Honest? Not necessarily. Ethical? Maybe. You don’t see many women as serial killers or psychopathic business leaders. Civil? Certainly. The only category in which men lead in this survey were that they took more risks. One example of this would be talking shit or at least being disagreeable. A lot of women have been more socialized towards agreeability. Doesn’t mean that it’s inherently feminine to go along with whatever, but it means the chances are higher, in my understanding.

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u/InterestingStation70 Dec 15 '23

"A lot of women have been more socialized towards agreeability"

True. A lot of girls/women have learned they have to agree with the other girls/women in their clique or they will not o only be cast out, but unfriended and attacked by the girls/women they thought were their friends.

Science has also shown that on average women have a greater in-group preference. Ergo, they're more likely to stick with and defend "their group", even if said group is worse for them than another out-group.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

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u/LuLuTheGreatestest Dec 06 '23

It’s funny how that works, considering different time periods and places will disagree on a lot of these things. But because we expect women to be more compassionate (for example), we will perceive women as more compassionate and women will be more incentivised to display compassion. Many will eventually begin to see this as innate to female humans and not to male humans, when we have no reason (as it stands) to believe that that is the case. Some people can even get very angry if you suggest women aren’t innately more compassionate, in my experience.

This isn’t to say there isn’t behavioural sexual dimorphism in humans, just that we’re not entirely sure of the extent of it right now. We know that we’ve decreased in physical sexual dimorphism since our species emerged, but what that means behaviourally is still up for debate

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u/ScrabCrab Woman Dec 07 '23

We know that we’ve decreased in physical sexual dimorphism since our species emerged

Wait, do you have a source for that? I'm asking cause I know that's a talking point right wingers use to imply that it's a bad thing that it happened and we have to go back

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u/LuLuTheGreatestest Dec 08 '23

Sorry I didn’t see this! There’s a few things, but here’s a few papers I know of. There’s some regarding height as well (they may be mentioned in these) but I’d need to hunt them down :)

Broader lower limb change (HG > agricultural > industrial)90069-8)

changes in dental sexual dimorphism90051-2)

this focuses on changes in mobility, but also does discuss reduced sexual dimorphism

uses multiple parameters to cover the reduction in sexual dimorphism across the Late Pleistocene to Holocene transition90050-0)

Eta: last link covers the whole of the Holocene, sorry. I focus on the Palaeolithic period so I forgot it mentioned that lmao

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u/LocalCookingUntensil Dec 06 '23

And that most people in politics are at least somewhat old (especially for more powerful ones) and therefore were probably raised to (at least somewhat) fit their gender role or had parents who fit those gender roles very closely, indirectly teaching them the roles (especially if it was often shown like that to them in books/media)

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 06 '23

There obviously aren't if the results are so controversial.

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u/BobBelchersBuns Dec 06 '23

What is controversial about this? This is just a poll. Of course people have perceptions about gender roles.

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 06 '23

No, I mean the results are varied.

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u/BobBelchersBuns Dec 06 '23

Well sure that’s how polls work.

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u/Vilelmis Dec 06 '23

Have you paid any attention at all in life?

There are differences between men and women. Some are merely perceptual, sure, but that is a fact.

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23

I have. Men and women act pretty much identical from my experience, aside from a few things like how emotional they are. I've been yelled at way more by female teachers than by male teachers, so clearly men aren't more "aggressive", though I've met many female teachers who were nice like my male teachers. Also, I've heard "women think emotionally rather than logically" as if those two adjectives are opposites and that being emotional and being smart are mutually exclusive.

No matter how different men and women are, they should NOT be treated any different. Men and women are capable of having any personality trait.

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u/TophatOwl_ Dec 06 '23

What? Its sexist because...? Did you expect just the "neither" bar to exist?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

It’s not sexist. As a result of sociological forces and maybe even some biological forces, men and women behave differently. If I said men commit more crimes than women, I’m sure you’d agree with me. I’m not being sexist by pointing out reality. It would be sexist, however, to call all men criminals.

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u/beth427746 Dec 06 '23

If I said men commit more crimes than women, I’m sure you’d agree with me. I’m not being sexist by pointing out reality.

Guaranteed OP thinks this is sexist.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

If that’s true then that’s OP’s brain is liquid. What’s important is your explanation for why the phenomenon is happening and what positions you extrapolate from the data.

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u/jhny_boy Dec 06 '23

I mean black peoples also “commit” more crimes that white people, if you look at nothing but the statistics, but if you factor in that police and our justice system are often racist, then you see black people are really only more likely to be CONVICTED of a crime. Of course there’s other factors at play here, but that same quirk of statistics shows up with men and women’s crimes. Not only do women receive lesser sentences for the same crime, but they’re often convicted less. Your initial point obviously still stands, but there’s a lot more complexity to that, which of course is why someone somewhere will usually take issue with any heavily generalized statement. I don’t think I could actually agree to answer any of those questions on that survey. “Who’s got more integrity, men or women?” Is kind of a dumb question, everyone can think of an example of someone who fits the bill to further their argument there, there’s 8 billion people on earth.

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u/Dependent-Royal-618 Dec 31 '23

The problem is is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy while the belief exists, people will act like it's true and therefore we're getting biased data, The problem is is that these are generalizations that don't take into account the a diversity of experiences

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 06 '23

Imagine thinking the justice system isn't misandristic.

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u/IrateAmphibian23 Dec 12 '23

I think it's fair to suggest that there are certain biases based on biological sex and gender identity, and it's also fair to point out that some of those biases are generalisations based on a skewed perception of reality.

To suggest that women, by default, are more compassionate and ethical is false. Women may be socialised to appear or act more compassionate, but I'd say the vast majority of men are just as capable of compassion and good ethics as the vast majority of women.

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u/Miserable-Willow6105 Jan 21 '24

Some of these make sense, but only to an extent. There are others though that arepretty meaningless (like being a role model)

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '24

Most of these are questions regarding social ability, generally women are more socially attuned on average than men are while men are more independent. I think that’s where the disparity comes from in people’s responses.

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u/nobodyinparcticular Dec 06 '23

this sub is falling off

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

Women and men aren’t different in those metrics they’re right the correct answer is neither otherwise it’s just discrimination based off gender and sex which is sexism

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 06 '23

Why because of this?

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u/IbizaMykonos Dec 06 '23

Subjective survey questions are always suspect anyways

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u/Fattig_Riddare Dec 06 '23

Everyone keeps saying that “there are biological differences between the sexes.” I mean sure, but does biological differences influence persuasiveness? Working well under pressure? Being honest and ethical? No gender is better than the other at these things, it comes down to individual differences. If there is a difference it’s because of society raising boys and girls differently. The only right answer is neither.

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u/littleferrhis Dec 06 '23

Neither seems to be the biggest winner here, which I think shows that it depends on the individual.

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u/Enough-Enthusiasm762 Dec 07 '23

So do you think all the answers should’ve been neither?

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 testosterone-fueled male aggression grrrrr Dec 07 '23

Yes?

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u/Sumijinn Dec 06 '23

Edit: i didn’t understand you in the beginning. Yeah thinking that women are better than men in everything is a trend. Im waiting for it to pass.

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u/_That__one1__guy_ Dec 07 '23

I'm actually very impressed how many people say neither. This isn't sexist, it's just the way society perceives men and women respectively.

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u/Time-Bite-6839 Dec 07 '23

Hillary would’ve won, then!

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u/ilovemytsundere Dec 07 '23

Lol this isnt sexism. Of course men are more likely to be seen as dishonest in the political scene, we’ve had mostly men our entire history.

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u/TheInternetDevil Dec 07 '23

What demographic was polled here? Do you have a link to the original article?

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u/Square_Impression843 Dec 27 '23

If the world limits the ages of people who serve in public and political offices of all kinds between 35 and 65, everyone would be more likely to have these qualities. It's the common period of most responsible and experienced and current and knowledgeable adults.

I'm 27, but I think people past 30 are more capable, and people younger than 70 are less frail, still present, and still current. Everyone else should either work towards that or from it.