[mister J]

lol go back to the kitchenz ladies 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Hostile Sexism Score:  2.55
Benevolent Sexism Score: 2.27

Sitting on the fence is still fun.
 

* Androgeos Exeunt compares his results to the rest of Singapore.

My score for both is lower than the average male Singaporean. Interesting.

[General Battuta]

But the scale is pretty transparent and somewhat confounded by the issue of homosexuality awareness.

Yeah. I noticed that too.

As for the IAT, I'm wondering how much the way it is presented is biasing the results. The test with male and liberal sciences together comes before the one with male and science. Unless the results are being adjusted there are going to be slower, more inaccurate responses the first time round simply because it is the first time we are doing the combined test.

Hopefully they are correcting for that but I do have to wonder if they took two groups and split them up based on which way round the test was presented if there would be a difference.

That's exactly how it's done in actual experimental runs. The order of presentation is counterbalanced and the results averaged. You still get a significant effect.

[Flipside]

I wouldn't even take that test to be honest, the first few steps put me off right from the top, the first two questions were enough to make me not be bothered to continue, especially since I have been the victim of sexual discrimination from a female boss in the past, my opinions about them using their gender to 'get ahead' is somewhat tainted. My own personal experience is that there those who are perfectly happy to do that, but my global knowledge is that it is not as common as people think.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, that's one of the big problems with obviously loaded self-report systems like that.

[Flipside]

Sadly enough, it is one of the aspects of the sex-discrimination act that has woeful coverage, for some reason men are supposed to just 'suck it up', and that usually ends up doing more damage in the long term.

[karajorma]

If you really believe in equality of the sexes you have to believe that women are just as big a bunch of self-serving, power-hungry twats as men are.

[Flipside]

Well, this was the point I raised, that if I'd walked around the office saying 'All Women are Whores', or 'All Muslims are Terrorists', I'd have been out on my ear, but 'All men are born liars' apparently fell into a different category according to my Coordinator, who was male, and had been friends with my line manager for well over a decade.

Worst part is that no-one wants to touch situations like that, if you get a female member of staff being sexually harassed, at least in the environments I've worked in, there's a whole support and representation framework available to them, whereas a male member of staff in a similar position has considerably less support to hand.

Discrimination is raceless, colourless, genderless and sexualityless (if there's such a word), what confuses me is why some people seem to struggle with such a simple concept.

[iamzack]

It very much gets on my nerves when I hear anyone make broad generalizations about either sex.

I don't get more offended when those comments come from men and are directed at women, but I do get a bit nervous for the same reason I get nervous if I meet a religious fanatic who dismisses an entire group of people as "evil."

[achtung]

    
Hostile Sexism Score: 0.82
Benevolent Sexism Score: 0.27

Should I be embarrassed?

[Blue Lion]

Hostile Sexism Score:  0.18
Benevolent Sexism Score: 0.82

I think that may be bad actually

[Liberator]

It very much gets on my nerves when I hear anyone make broad generalizations about either sex.

I don't get more offended when those comments come from men and are directed at women, but I do get a bit nervous for the same reason I get nervous if I meet a religious fanatic who dismisses an entire group of people as "evil."

On this note I'd like to declare my newfound understanding of the following:

Pizza Delivery Boys are Evil.  As are their dark minions of chaos, Street Sweepers and Pot Hole Fillers.  They're deviously good and bad at their jobs simoultaneously.

*edit*
Fixed.  Don't post 3 min after waking up, it's bad....

[redsniper]

they're

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[Scotty]

?

He used it correctly?  What's with the "AAARRRGGGHHH!!!"?

[General Battuta]

He may have fixed the error with 'their'.

[el_magnifico]

Hostile Sexism Score:  0.45
Benevolent Sexism Score: 0.18

See? You're a feminist.

No. That score is distorted. It would be nice to think that my benevolent sexism score is that low, but in reality I know I do act protectively when a woman I'm in love with is in danger.

Regardless, considering the negative connotations that term carries in Spanish, I would still prefer to be called a "non-misogynyst", or something like that.

[iamzack]

It's not sexist if the person in question is a lover/relative/friend that happens to be female... well, unless you wouldn't do the same for a male you were close to.

[General Battuta]

Hostile Sexism Score:  0.45
Benevolent Sexism Score: 0.18

See? You're a feminist.

No. That score is distorted. It would be nice to think that my benevolent sexism score is that low, but in reality I know I do act protectively when a woman I'm in love with is in danger.

Regardless, considering the negative connotations that term carries in Spanish, I would still prefer to be called a "non-misogynyst", or something like that.

Acting protectively towards someone you love isn't a problem. It's the accompanying sense that women are weak and fragile (more so than a guy of the same size and fitness) that that's sort of tricky.

[el_magnifico]

It's not sexist if the person in question is a lover/relative/friend that happens to be female... well, unless you wouldn't do the same for a male you were close to.

Generally, I act protectively when anything I consider important to me is in danger. That includes male friends. But it's somewhat... different. The threshold of what I consider dangerous is slightly different. So there's a slight sexist component.

Well, maybe that's because I've never been in love with a guy.

[iamzack]

Well if it was a male child, you'd probably react just as strongly as if it were a woman. That's pretty much the reason "benevolent" sexism sucks so hard. It reduces women to children in the mind of society.