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'Feminists are man-hating and unhygienic': Why people have a bad opinion of activists
mail online ^ | Sadie Whitelocks

Posted on 09/26/2013 6:54:29 PM PDT by Morgana

Negative stereotypes about environmentalists and feminists are engrained in society, according to a new study.

Researchers from the University of Toronto quizzed over 400 Americans about both types of activists and received 'overwhelmingly negative' feedback.

The most common words used to describe 'typical feminists' included 'man-hating' and 'unhygienic' while 'tree-hugger' and 'hippie' were attached to 'typical environmentalists'.

Revealing their findings in the European Journal of Social Psychology, the researchers say these character attacks 'play a key role in creating resistance to social change.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: feminists; misogynists
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1 posted on 09/26/2013 6:54:30 PM PDT by Morgana
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Weel it’s no secret feminists types could benefit using some feminine deodorant...


2 posted on 09/26/2013 6:58:04 PM PDT by ransacked
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To: Morgana

many feminists are lesbians and 75% of lesbians are obese. figure out why they are sterotyped as man-hating and unhygenic.


3 posted on 09/26/2013 6:58:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The most common words used to describe 'typical feminists' included 'man-hating' and 'unhygienic' while 'tree-hugger' and 'hippie' were attached to 'typical environmentalists'.

The reason for this might be that 'typical feminists' are rather frequently man-hating and unhygienic while 'typical environmentalists' are tree-huggers and hippies.

4 posted on 09/26/2013 6:59:12 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Dirty Hippies.


5 posted on 09/26/2013 7:01:43 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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6 posted on 09/26/2013 7:04:19 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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You should have seen those women supporting Wendy Davis in the Texas legislative session. That should make for some quality campaign ads if she runs for gov. But those pink tennis shoes. Wow.


7 posted on 09/26/2013 7:05:10 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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8 posted on 09/26/2013 7:06:40 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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I saw them, remember I posted stories of them.

I wanted to take a bath in isotope soap after seeing/reading of them.


9 posted on 09/26/2013 7:09:02 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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I call feminists, baby killer and Bull Dykes.

I call environmentalists whack jobs who need to get a job to take their minds off their BS agenda.


10 posted on 09/26/2013 7:11:14 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I saw a couple in Walmart the other day. Butch haircuts, stocky, tough-looking.
Braided armpit hair. Raid underarm deodorant. Fat.
Like single-mothers and streetwalkers, real life is nothing like Hollywood portrays them.


11 posted on 09/26/2013 7:12:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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the researchers say these character attacks 'play a key role in creating resistance to social change.'

No bias here......

Whatever happened to 'people are entitled to their beliefs"? Oh, yeah, that's only OK for Leftists.

12 posted on 09/26/2013 7:15:20 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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having a problem with cats following you home? making people throw up on the elevator?? use new _______ ____ and the fly's go right away...
13 posted on 09/26/2013 7:20:35 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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14 posted on 09/26/2013 7:24:29 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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I don’t like feminists, and I’m female.
I got flack for marrying young, having two kids in my 20s. They complained that I didn’t do enough for my career, professional development, etc.
I said I was a female engineer, often in classes with single digit female students and 50+ men. Then I worked in most male workplaces - as a woman, and later, mother.
I stalled professionally while taking breaks for kids and not travelling heavily. Fast forward a decade, and I have two kids in elementary school, while they are in their late 30s trying to have kids or find a partner or saying childlessness is just as good because they are liberated.
They never accepted my choice to be a part time employee and mother. Though there is plenty of vitriol for stay at home mothers, at least they get the support of female relatives who did the same and mothers who are also at home.
Funny how freedom to choose didn’t include balancing two worlds.


15 posted on 09/26/2013 7:24:38 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Secret Agent Man

Most of the lesbians at my gym are NOT obese.

Not attactive, maybe, but not obese.


16 posted on 09/26/2013 7:24:57 PM PDT by proxy_user
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We should be grateful to Hillary Clinton....she did us all a favor by virtually destroying feminism. Her silence about her sexual predator husband’s many misdeeds, including sexual assault and sexual harassment, showed modern feminism for what it is...nothing more than a political tool for the left.


17 posted on 09/26/2013 7:28:55 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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“My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie-chick pie wagons they call “women” at the Democratic National Convention.”

That’s Lady Ann Coulter giving the prizewinning definition of “feminists”.

“Pie wagons”......love it!


18 posted on 09/26/2013 7:33:18 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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19 posted on 09/26/2013 8:22:28 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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That is most likely proof that fat people do not frequent gyms, rather than evidence that most lesbians are not fat......


20 posted on 09/26/2013 8:35:57 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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