R/"science" posts a shitty study that says men objectify women to "maintain power", removes dozens of high voted posts that quote from the paper because they prove its bias

FormedBoredom · 2019-11-09T20:16:25+00:00

r/science is getting just as bad as extreme feminist subs. Likely a bunch of neckbeardy mods trying to please the wahmen.

iainmf · 2019-11-10T02:02:24+00:00

Link page with removed comments.

rusty_catheter · 2019-11-09T23:06:58+00:00

This is why I left that sub a couple weeks ago. It was getting to be too much shilling.

SharedRegime · 2019-11-10T04:36:24+00:00

I know i already commented but wanted to share this comment from the post.

The statistics were pretty impressive.

The authors handling of “gazing” behavior as a primary indicator of sexual objectification was awful. This is my biggest criticism of the study.
First, their descriptions of the way gazing was measured were unclear in that they never firmly addressed how this was measured. It seems to have come from the photo ranking exercise, which is an implicit measurement of gazing at best.
Photo ranking involved showing men photos of random stuff and scantily clad women without showing the face, and measured how long men looked at them vs photos of objects and landscapes. The authors also did not do the same for women participants, eg show that photos of scantily clad men and gauge the reaction.

The use of avatar selection to measure sexual objectification was a pretty clever tool.

The fact that they didn’t release their survey questions even in an appendix is suspicious.

Ignoring any other criticisms, the generalizability of this study to the USA - and, is suspect, Western Europe - is minimal as all study pariticipants were Israeli with Hebrew or Russian as their primary language, indicating significant baseline cultural differences.

Theyre criticizing it pretty hard. Lets not become the crazy feminists ourselves in our quest to be taken seriously guys.

karnamansplainer · 2019-11-10T04:58:44+00:00

If men weren't fascinated with staring at women's bodies none of us would even be alive. Why has science gone so far beyond nature that they cannot see this?

PsychoPhilosopher · 2019-11-10T08:45:49+00:00

My comment stayed up on /r/psychology which was (obviously) less than supportive.

Most of the comments removed were pretty explicitly gender political, and it does look like they've removed some feminist man-hating comments as well which is always nice to see.

CookieMonstah1 · 2019-11-10T02:46:57+00:00

I left the sub cause of this post

SharedRegime · 2019-11-10T04:32:48+00:00

why are the two studies done with different numbers of people? thats exactly how you get your findings denounced instantly.

Who the fuck funded this?

karnamansplainer · 2019-11-10T06:03:45+00:00

How do we end up here where everything is controlled by women? Cultural Marxism is good theory but its still doesn't explain why women control social narratives without any consequence and abuse men who disagree with them?

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