Saturday 30 March 2019

People expect feminist women to look masculine and feminist men to look feminine

People expect feminist women to look masculine and feminist men to look feminine

Feminist women are visually stereotyped as more masculine while the opposite is true for feminist men, according to new research published in the journal Sex Roles. The researchers noted that feminist women are often derided for being unattractive or manly. Their study aimed to uncover whether it was “possible that these associations can be observed not only in the form of verbal stereotypes but also in the way people visually represent feminists at a fundamental, perceptual level?”
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2019/03/people-expect-feminist-women-to-look-masculine-and-feminist-men-to-look-feminine-53404?source=Snapzu

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