Posted on 08/28/2018 6:45:38 PM PDT by Eddie01
Women take sexy selfies to compete with other women in economically unequal environments, rather than out of patriarchal oppression, according to UNSW researchers.
A study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, found women took sexy selfies in environments with greater economic inequality, rather than where they might be oppressed because of their gender.
The researchers analysed more than 68,000 sexualised self-portrait photographs, or "selfies," posted on social media platforms Instagram and Twitter across 113 countries.
They also looked at where in the world the most selfies were taken.
The researchers found the association between sexy-selfie prevalence and income inequality was directly related, with greater sexualisation in environments where incomes are unequal and people are preoccupied with relative social standing.
"We found no association with gender oppression," the study said.
"It's all about how women are competing and why they're competing," said the study's lead author, Khandis Blake from UNSW Science's School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
She said women are "more likely to invest time and effort into posting sexy selfies online in places where economic inequality is rising, and not in places where men hold more societal power and gender inequality is rife".
Researchers in the past have found women take more selfies than men.
The PNAS researchers said income inequality increases competitiveness and status anxiety amongst people at all levels of the social hierarchy, making them sensitive to where they sit on the social ladder and wanting them to do better than others.
"Rightly or wrongly, in today's environment, looking sexy can generate large returns, economically, socially, and personally," Blake says.
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68,000 sexual self-portraits. So says you. I think we need to post the evidence, and judge for ourselves. All THE EVIDENCE. Hold back nothing. We need a complete examination of the facts to get to the naked truth here.
Women? Compete? Say it aint so. Women competing goes way beyond economics to insecurity and self-esteem. Even rich women compete. Especially rich women.
So the Selfies are sent with their resumes?
“Researchers in the past have found women take more selfies than men.”
They had to conduct research to figure that out?
Hence why Russian and Ukrainian women dominate instagram.
Oooooh...stop that! You’re getting me all hot and bothered!
ROTFL!
I wonder how many millions of our tax dollars was spent on this silly study?
Women dress for other women, they don’t dress for men, cause men don’t care, she could wear a t shirt and sweat pants and her husband/boyfriend/guy she met at the bar, will still bang her, she knows that.
That’s hysterical!! I don’t know why, but I can’t stop laughing.
I remember a selfie on myspace that went viral, it was a real cute young black girl in her bathroom. She was wearing a lite blue bra & undie set................ and in the background, there was a great big turd floating in the toilet. I imagine the poor girl was mortified.
It amuses me how the corrupt media declared Obama some kind of hip, cool guy for conquering social media, when in reality about all he did was post some selfies and the very occasional tweet.
By contrast, the old, uncool guy, Donald Trump, has completely bypassed the entire media by using Twitter, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it—to include Twitter.
Spanish Fly?
She must spread her legs a lot.
Keyboard spew alert
Wow, you mean Women market their looks and Men market their earning ability? As Marilyn Monroe said “A beautiful Women is equal to a rich Man”.
Or worse.
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