Quote from: MiningAtlas on April 21, 2015, 02:34:00 PM

Quote from: Wilikon on September 30, 2013, 05:50:34 AM

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/26/study_everyone_hates_environmentalists_and_feminists_partner/

Why dont people behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They dont want to be associated with environmentalists.

Thats the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists.

Participants held strongly negative stereotypes about such activists, and those feelings reduced their willingness to adopt the behaviors that these activities promoted, reports a research team led by University of Toronto psychologist Nadia Bashir. This surprisingly cruel caricaturing, the researchers conclude, plays a key role in creating resistance to social change.

Writing in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Bashir and her colleagues describe a series of studies documenting this dynamic. They began with three pilot studies, which found people hold stereotyped views of environmentalists and feminists.

In one, the participants228 Americans recruited via Amazons Mechanical Turkdescribed both varieties of activists in overwhelmingly negative terms. The most frequently mentioned traits describing typical feminists included man-hating and unhygienic; for typical environmentalists, they included tree-hugger and hippie.

Another study, featuring 17 male and 45 female undergraduates, confirmed the pervasiveness of those stereotypes.

http://youtu.be/G880gxjj9dI

Not sure about title, i think feminists are a pain in the arse these days, they are kinda redundant.

Well. NOT ALL feminists. The third wave feminists.

The title (of this thread) stays as is, so no one can be accused of pushing a foxnews agenda... Salon.com said it.