Patricia Richardson was the wife on Home Improvement.
Patricia HEATON was the wife on Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Posted on 10/15/2007 2:34:04 PM PDT by crazyshrink
Heidelberg, 15 October 2007
Feminism and romance go hand in hand
Study reveals that feminism is healthy for intimate relationships
Contrary to popular opinion, feminism and romance are not incompatible and feminism may actually improve the quality of heterosexual relationships, according to Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan, from Rutgers University in the US. Their study (1) also shows that unflattering feminist stereotypes, that tend to stigmatize feminists as unattractive and sexually unappealing, are unsupported. Rudman and Phelan’s work is published this week in Springer’s journal Sex Roles.
It is generally perceived that feminism and romance are in direct conflict. Rudman and Phelan’s work challenges this perception. They carried out both a laboratory survey of 242 American undergraduates and an online survey including 289 older adults, more likely to have had longer relationships and greater life experience. They looked at men’s and women’s perception of their own feminism and its link to relationship health, measured by a combination of overall relationship quality, agreement about gender equality, relationship stability and sexual satisfaction.
They found that having a feminist partner was linked to healthier heterosexual relationships for women. Men with feminist partners also reported both more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction. According to these results, feminism does not predict poor romantic relationships, in fact quite the opposite.
The authors also tested the validity of feminist stereotypical beliefs amongst their two samples, based on the hypothesis that if feminist stereotypes are accurate, then feminist women should be more likely to report themselves as being single, lesbian, or sexually unattractive, compared with non-feminist women.
Rudman and Phelan found no support for this hypothesis amongst their study participants. In fact, feminist women were more likely to be in a heterosexual romantic relationship than non-feminist women. The authors conclude that feminist stereotypes appear to be inaccurate, and therefore their unfavorable implications for relationships are also likely to be unfounded.
1. Rudman LA & Phelan JE (2007). The interpersonal power of feminism: is feminism good for romantic relationships? Sex Roles (DOI 10.1007/s11199-007-9319-9)
Domineering, overtly masculine women have always had a limited appeal to weak men who seek to be dominated. Since so many liberals fit that definition, and have the mindset to prove it, it is no small wonder that an androgyne like Hillary Clinton or Diane Feinstein would earn their approval. However, I think it is false to say that dyke women appeal to the general male population. That marginal “metrosexual” maybe.
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Why are these article allowed to be printed, because they are nothing than propaganda. Would they really revel that “Feminist” are more likely to divorcee or not get married at all? There conclusions do not make logical sense. So a woosy guy that marries a domineering feminist woman is happier than a guy who is mater of his house with a wife that believes in being feminine?
Gee. If Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan at Rutgers say it’s so then it must be so...
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I think you mean Patricia Heaton
“tend to stigmatize feminists as unattractive and sexually unappealing”
The only thing that stigmatizes feminists as unattractive and sexually unappealing is 20/20 eyesight.
I always think of hairy armpits and unshaved legs.
How, like, scientific. You know?
Of course, my face is red!
Patricia Richardson was the wife on Home Improvement.
Patricia HEATON was the wife on Everybody Loves Raymond.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/golden/21-patricia-heaton.jpg
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Right... First, self-reporting (on which this “study” is entirely based) is notoriously unreliable. Seriously, how many people, feminist or not, do you think would report themselves as “sexually unattractive.” Second, they make quite the leap at the end. Basically, they’re saying “if condition A isn’t accurate, then condition B must not be accurate, too.” Yeah, except that they haven’t proven the 2 conditions are correlated.
Science at work, who’s to doubt?!
Being told that I’m not needed, and that holding open a door for a lady is sexual harassment doesn’t appeal to me.
Nor is it healthy.
It needs to be defined what they mean by “feminism.”
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