Sexismus ist oft ein stärkerer Prädiktor für politische Einstellungen als das tatsächliche Geschlecht eines Wählers. Der Grad des Sexismus eines Wählers ist ein wichtiger Indikator für seine politischen Einstellungen und Wahlentscheidungen. Vorurteile prägen alles, von der Unterstützung rechter Kandidaten bis hin zu Meinungen zur Klimapolitik.
Sexism is often a stronger predictor of political attitudes than a voter’s actual gender
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**Sexism is often a stronger predictor of political attitudes than a voter’s actual gender**
A recent systematic review published in [*Public Opinion Quarterly*](https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaf066) suggests that a voter’s level of sexism is a significant predictor of their political attitudes and voting choices. By analyzing nearly one hundred previous studies, the research provides evidence that different types of prejudice shape everything from support for right-wing candidates to opinions on climate policy. The findings highlight how deeply ingrained beliefs about gender roles continue to influence the modern political landscape.
The review provides evidence that prejudice plays a major role in modern elections. “The most important takeaway is that sexism is a statistically significant and substantially relevant predictor of political preferences and behavior, often proving to be a stronger predictor of voting patterns and attitudes than a person’s own gender,” Gulczyński said. Voters scoring high in hostile or modern sexism were significantly more likely to support Donald Trump and oppose Hillary Clinton.
The compiled research shows that benevolent sexism is a strong predictor of opposition to abortion, as it reveres women who conform to the traditional role of a self-sacrificing mother. These gender biases also spill over into policy areas that are not obviously related to women’s rights. The review highlights that hostile and modern sexism are associated with opposition to climate change policies and negative attitudes toward immigrants.
https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/90/1/238/8502183
When a woman hates women you know who they vote for.
Very ironic though when they think women shouldn’t be allowed to vote yet here they are voting.
I mean yeah, people that are bigots are going to lean towards the bigoted party because it affirms their hatred — it’s literally how Republicans in this country and conservatives widely in the world operate.
Feed their hate, sate my greed.
And around we go in the wash.
They found the same about racism in another study. Seems like shitty people overwhelmingly choose the right wing party.
Ever misogynist i see online is right wing and every misandrist is left wing. So im not really surprised
I am sure that there is a lot of overlap between misogynists and racists among white people. But misogyny cuts across racial lines, so it includes more people overall.
The study defines things such as “the belief that women seek to gain power by controlling men” or “the idea that women have a ‘superior moral sensibility” as sexism.
I don’t have access to the full study but I suspect any criticism of women or differentiation between women and men, even in the woman’s favor, is treated as sexism, and that same courtesy is likely not extended to the reverse.
So tired of these loaded, slop studies.
On the one hand it’s good that even obvious things are studied. On the other, saying that a binary physical characteristic is not as useful as a more nuanced scale of beliefs is not a very useful or astounding conclusion. This work seems fitting for a first year student. It doesn’t really qualify as worthy of publication.
The party that’s mean to androgenous people and transgender people are seeking to highly divide the country into a sexist duopoly? I would be surprised if we hadn’t been saying this for years.
Soon talking to a member of another gender before marriage will be considered a transgender act.
The paper mentions how some people don’t acknowledge that sexism against women can still exist while outright ignoring sexism against men; it is not unusual today to have people believe that sexism against men can even happen and this is a good example of this. This paper doesn’t even acknowledge misandry, which if you’re not living under a rock it is becoming extremely common and accepted in socially, yet claims to be a paper on sexism; ignoring a large swath of a problem just because you don’t like it isn’t fully researching the problem in question.
1) this isn’t a very good journal so take this with a grain of salt. 2) „sexism“ here is broadly defined to include endorsing traditional gender roles and opposing sex based affirmative action.
Basically boils down to lack of empathy, no?
Sexists tend to vote for the party of sexists? Shocking.
This is why I feel completely justified in using a pro-choice litmus test when voting.
When you have a two party system with an anti-prejudice party against an anti-empathy/pro-prejudice party, these things arent exactly surprising
Prejudice is *coincident* with everything from right wing support to climate change.
I doubt sexism directly shapes views on the climate, unless they believe in a female sun goddess.
Wouldn’t it have been weird if the sexists were all in the party that opposes sexism instead of the party that fiercely advocates for it?
What shall we study next? Do you think there are more racists in the racist party than the anti-racism party? An important question that must be studied!
Women for Trump is like being a slave and fighting for the rights of plantation owners.
The underlying framework that informs sexism (and racism and other caste like social divisions) is a belief in a natural or ordaned hierarchy like men>women>children, Elderly>middle aged> children, This is why certain interventions (feeding the poor, sheltering the homeless, providing harm reduction for addicts) are resisted because it clashes with the almost subconscious heirarchies that most people operate under. This study seems to be saying (according to the title, I didn’t read it), the degree one supports normative heirarchies or caste structures the more one’s views screw conservative and vice versa.
Who knew who knew. Good vs evil all along
Idiots are Republicans. Got it
And of course, “sexism” is always a one way street. Will we ever evaluate women’s sexism? And the way it affects their voting choices?
Of course not, that would in itself qualify as “sexism.”
This isn’t science.
As we believe, so we do. The world is what we make it. We create our own reality.
Scientists should study being able to handle a black James Bond
Is it so for both misogyny and misandry?
This paper doesn’t really mean anything. It all comes down to what they define as sexism. Therefore, this is a speculative based study not an empirical one.
For sexism I would imagine it depends on which gender they’re prejudiced against. Sexism toward women would likely predict right wing politics whereas sexism toward men would likely predict left wing politics.
Im a huge misogynist but im also very progressive so this isnt always true.