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Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists
Salon ^
| 09/26/2013
| Tom Jacobs
Posted on 09/26/2013 2:02:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Why dont people behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They dont want to be associated with environmentalists.
Thats the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists.
Participants held strongly negative stereotypes about such activists, and those feelings reduced their willingness to adopt the behaviors that these activities promoted, reports a research team led by University of Toronto psychologist Nadia Bashir. This surprisingly cruel caricaturing, the researchers conclude, plays a key role in creating resistance to social change.
Writing in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Bashir and her colleagues describe a series of studies documenting this dynamic. They began with three pilot studies, which found people hold stereotyped views of environmentalists and feminists.
In one, the participants228 Americans recruited via Amazons Mechanical Turkdescribed both varieties of activists in overwhelmingly negative terms. The most frequently mentioned traits describing typical feminists included man-hating and unhygienic; for typical environmentalists, they included tree-hugger and hippie.
Another study, featuring 17 male and 45 female undergraduates, confirmed the pervasiveness of those stereotypes. It further found participants were less interested in befriending activists who participated in stereotypical behavior (such as staging protest rallies), but could easily envision hanging out with those who use nonabrasive and mainstream methods such as raising money or organizing social events.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; envirofascism; envirofascists; environmentalists; feminazis; feminism; feminists; globalwarming; liberalism; misogynists
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The brainiacs at Salon just figured this out.
Hoo Boy.
To: Responsibility2nd
This strikes me as a simple case of reaping what one has sown.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:04:39 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
To: WayneS
MOST are ANTI AMERICAN COMMUNISTS. That may have something to do with it.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:08:40 PM PDT
by
spawn44
(MOO)
To: Responsibility2nd
Participants held strongly negative stereotypes about such activists.
.........................................................
That’s because these activists are stereotypically negative.
Feminists like killing babies, and the people trying to save trees are destroying them by fire because they do not allow thinning.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:09:34 PM PDT
by
Venturer
( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
To: Responsibility2nd
Environmentalists and Feminists are good folks to hate.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:10:05 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: Responsibility2nd
"Participants held strongly negative stereotypes about such activists, and those feelings reduced their willingness to adopt the behaviors that these activities promoted, reports a research team led by University of Toronto psychologist Nadia Bashir. This surprisingly cruel caricaturing, the researchers conclude, plays a key role in creating resistance to social change.
Feminists themselves are among the worst practitioners of "cruel caricaturing." It is what they do - almost without exception, they are crude, unpleasant, smug people.
To: Little Ray
Hey, if you’ve gotta hate someone, they’re a good place to start.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:11:04 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
To: spawn44
Feminists - women in rebellion to their God given role.
Environmentalists - earth worshipping pagans.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:12:31 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Responsibility2nd
The most influential constituents the politicians in all levels of government like feminism and environmentalism for keeping potential business competition from other families down. Little constituents, not so much.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:12:45 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:12:47 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Ted Cruz for President!)
To: Responsibility2nd
The most influential constituents controlling the politicians, even.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:13:27 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Responsibility2nd
New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They dont want to be associated with environmentalists.My standard supper table repartee with those types present, involves environmentalists making good compost.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:14:07 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Little Ray
I don’t hate them. They are in the same category as dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:15:37 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Just gonna have to send everybody to the re-education facilities until they think differently.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:17:04 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: Responsibility2nd
If you’re BOTH you must be totally despised.....................
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:18:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Blood of Tyrants
True, disgust is not the same as hate.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:18:59 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: Responsibility2nd
An antidote:
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:19:43 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Ted Cruz for President!)
To: Red Badger
Exactly.
If you’re an enviro-weenie - you are likely a femi-nazi too.
And vice-versa.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:20:39 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists Sun rises in east.
Water is wet.
Odinga is a bisexual Muslim.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:20:47 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Responsibility2nd
Why doesn’t the media ever state the obvious. Sterotypes are based on observed behaviour.
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posted on
09/26/2013 2:25:09 PM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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