Oh god, this is terrifying.
In the weeks and months following Donald Trump’s shocking election to the US Presidency, we’ve approached each new day with caution: what will he do next? Who is next on the hit list? How will our world survive?
But as the initial horror settled into something more permanent – a sad resignation, perhaps – the thinkers of the world really got thinking: what does the Trump era mean for humanity? And for two social scientists in America, their findings are nothing short of horrifying.
Corinne Low and Jenny Huang of the University of Pennsylvania were investigating gender differences in communication styles when they stumbled across some unexpected results: the way that men were speaking to women in their negotiations following the election.
In a simple game they named ‘Battle of the Sexes’, Huang and Low set out to prove that men are less likely to use aggressive negotiation techniques when paired with female partners.
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So men are now treating women the same way they treat other men. Win for feminism?
And the comments here just show how far we've managed to backslide since November. Let's go back to when a**holery was celebrated and kindness was a weakness - that a real win for the evolution of humankind. In this scenario, no one wins except hate.
Do you genuinely believe an entire nation with 320 million people can magically have their views suddenly reversed in just 6 weeks?
Your extreme hysterical views/comments are exactly why this third wave of feminism is failing to achieve any kind of equality.
Normal women and men looking on at the antics of these women with their sick obsessions run a mile the other way.
Sick obsessions? Hysterical? Really Annette. And classifying yourself as "normal"? What's "normal" Annette? Being binary gender, heterosexual, married, white, Conservative, Christian middle class - is that what you mean? Do enlighten us all please?
That's an extremely simplistic way of looking at it. Way I see it - by voting in a misogynistic rascist male it sends the message that sexism, racism and exclusion of the "other" (anyone not a white, straight male) will be tolerated. So anyone with latent feelings of superiority, or feeling inferior due to their perceived displacement in society, will now feel free to exercise their power over the "other" - whatever form that may take - and the experiment in this article is a demonstration of the effect on gendered interactions.