New study falsely claims people only allow bodily autonomy for men. What are your thoughts?

MelissaMiranti · 2025-02-18T06:36:41+00:00

TIL circumcision and conscription don't exist.

NonbinaryYolo · 2025-02-18T07:01:11+00:00

This study in and of itself is a study about the moralizing of women's bodies 🤣

I'm not sure how you'd account for the feedback loop of gender studies. Because the fact of the matter is gender studies is dominated by women's point of views, so yeah... You end up with more studies discussing the ethics surrounding women's issues.

The confusion here is that a deeper discussion of women's issues is somehow demeaning, rather than evidence of gender study privilege.

Just a heads up to anyone that isn't in the know. 88% of academics in gender studies are women. Aswell, 75%+ of sociologists and psychologists are women.

This-Oil-5577 · 2025-02-18T11:14:51+00:00

I love how this study just proves we care more about women but ofc the conclusion is women are getting the shit end of the stick

Absentrando · 2025-02-18T14:35:16+00:00

They are right that society is more protective of women’s bodies and regulates it more closely. But on the flip side of that, it views men’s as more disposable, and men are expected to risk life and limb when there is danger while the same expectation doesn’t exist for women.

Gnome_Child_Deluxe · 2025-02-18T09:53:42+00:00

The study doesn't claim that people only allow bodily autonomy for men, it claims that people invoke more moral purity arguments when trying to justify controlling women's bodies than they do when talking about men's bodies and that they do so because they harbor sexist beliefs.

ARabbitShotAHunter · 2025-02-19T09:03:38+00:00

Another gender studies paper displaying its bias in sentence 1 and then demonstrating it thoroughly.

Some behaviours are moralized more for men, other for women. There is no clear tendency in these numbers. Men are moralized for drinking and taking drugs more than women. Women are moralized for getting plastic surgery, doing bodybuilding or getting sterilized more than men. Differences in the other items are minor. None of this is discussed in the paper, they take care to bury the detail in broad and pointless generalizations.

It seems women modifying their bodies is the issue, which could be linked to the sacralization of women's bodies. It seems men having fun and losing control is moralized, which may be tied to men's provider role. Gender roles impose different constraints on men and women. Interestingly the study did not investigate injunctions to do, which likely affect men more, just injunctions to not do, which probably affect women more.

On top of this, the gender of respondents is not discussed or even displayed, which is surprising for a gender studies paper. I'm guessing that they collected the data and did not publish it because it did not fit the narrative they were trying to spin.

Adventurous_Design73 · 2025-02-21T02:51:38+00:00

Male genital mutilation

No-Seaworthiness959 · 2025-02-19T04:34:55+00:00

That research is very America-centric and does not even seem to be aware of it.

Former_Range_1730 · 2025-02-18T12:53:27+00:00

If a man or a woman uses their body to harm someone, that is against the law. In no situation can a man randomly beat up someone in a grocery store and not get in trouble by authorities for it. If men were allowed bodily autonomy, that would mean they are lawless. This is clearly false.

Title	New study falsely claims people only allow bodily autonomy for men. What are your thoughts?
Author	DemolitionMatter
Upvotes	99
Comments	51
Date	February 18, 2025 12:07 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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