Study: Male Jurors More Likely To Find Overweight Women Guilty

CBS Local ^ | January 12, 2013

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Male members of a jury are more likely to find a defendant guilty if the accused person is an overweight female.

According to a recent study by Yale University psychologists, male – and not female – jurors are also more inclined to believe that a fat woman is a repeat offender who had malicious intent.

The researchers gathered a group of 471 pretend peers of varying body sizes and described to them a case of check fraud. They also presented them with one of four images—either a large man, a lean man, a large woman, or a lean woman—and identified the person in the photograph as the defendant.

Participants rated the pretend-defendant’s guilt on a five-point scale. No fat bias was present when the female pretend peers evaluated the fake female defendants or when either men or women assessed the guilt of the men.

But when the male pretend peers pronounced judgment on the fake female defendants – physical bias weighed in on their decision.

[Pikachu_Dad]

It is stated incorrectly.

It should be “pretty women are more likely to skate”

Or “Men less likely to convict pretty women”

[golf lover]

Solution: Select only blind male jurors.

[golf lover]

Solution: Select only blind male jurors.

[Mamzelle]

Actually, a fascinating study. It has always been my contention that so much protesting about man-hating feminists is both a --

1) straw man argument designed to try to throw all women, not just ideological feminists, on the defensive

2) a whining, "projection" attempt to avoid the sad knowledge that men have a deep-seated antagonism toward women

And it's not necessarily sexist. I think Rush Limbaugh is a text-book case of it. He falls for a gorgeous young woman, then can't handle a long-term relationship where he might have to deal with the horrible reality that she is not beautiful and perfectly groomed 24/7.

And I'll bet he treats the women who work for him with fastidious fairness. Like I said, it's not sexism, it's misogyny.

You could write a PhD dissertation on many men's tragic inability to love what doesn't excite his eyes sexually at any particular moment.

A fat woman is a woman a man doesn't want to have sex with. Therefore, she's to be hated, and imprisoned away from sight!. Even if she was beautiful once, was faithful and loving and devoted. He hates her.

And the porn addiction that seems to haunt men--disembodied women's body parts floating on a computer screen, eh, how disgusting.

This is a study for the FR wimmin haters club.

[Mamzelle]

Excuse me, but exactly how many times has there been a “not guilty” here on fr for any murderess who happens to be nubile?

[central_va]

You could write a PhD dissertation on many men's tragic inability to love what doesn't excite his eyes sexually at any particular moment.

To be blunt it is "hard" to fake an erection. Visual stimulation is not required but makes the situation 100 times easier. We cant just lay there and groan and fake it. No PhD dissertation needed.

[RegulatorCountry]

Even better, it’s flypaper for the FR Manhater’s Club, lol.

[Mamzelle]

I have watched a few marriages go on the rocks because the wife gained weight, something that happens to many women when they get older, have a man's children and face middle age, etc. And as much as I adore Rush, I cringe when he starts pontificating about women. He's as blind to his own problems as he is deaf to them. I always hear echoes of his failed three marriages.

In this world where so many marriages fail and do horrible damage to children, it wouldn't hurt for a few studies on how men can deal with their sexuality and how what their eyes so can ruin their lives and the lives of their children.

Women don't have the kind of hostility to fat men that men have toward fat women. For instance, you don't see a lot of photographs posted on FR of fat men by women, but it's *hard* to ever get through a thread about the "war of the sexes" without the prerequisite grotesque photo of a fat woman, posted by a gleeful FReeper boy who must have a whole file of them at the ready.

The study was also about people's reaction to fat men. Only men's attitudes towards women were so prejudicial. Imagine hating to look at a woman so much that you want her imprisoned.

[central_va]

That was a nice response but the war between the sexes continues. The “fat” wife demands either celibacy or fidelity from her husband who just wants to enjoy the simple act of love making.