Responding to Masculinity Threats with Self-Sexualizing Appeasement Strategies

Schlenker, Kristine A.; Vescio, Theresa K.

doi:10.1037/e506052012-191

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“…Additionally, people take actions to mollify men who have experienced gender status threats. For example, women who have threatened a man’s manhood status use appeasement strategies (e.g., self-sexualization) to compensate for the man’s threatened manhood (Schlenker, 2010). We suggest that people may similarly excuse a man’s sexism when perceived as resulting from threatened manhood due to recognition of and sympathy with the belief that men react to threats with compensatory behaviors.…”

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People Judge Male Sexism More Leniently When Women Emasculate Men

Michniewicz

Vandello

2015

Social Psychology

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Abstract. While overt sexism has become less acceptable in recent years, sexism frequently goes unchallenged by observers for a variety of reasons. In the present investigation, we propose that people may excuse men’s sexist remarks when the remarks follow a manhood threat caused by a woman. In Study 1, we found that a man’s sexist remark buffered against the emasculating effect of a threat to his masculinity from an ex-girlfriend. In Study 2, we further show that observers excuse a man’s sexist remark following a competitive loss to a woman to the extent that they perceive him as less manly as a result. We replicate this finding in Study 3 while ruling out two competing explanations. We discuss the implication that sexism prevention efforts need to identify and address gender-related contexts where sexism is excused in order for efforts to move toward its prevention.

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Section: Excusing and Confronting Sexismmentioning

confidence: 99%