People Who Are Anti-Abortion Are Also Sexist, Worrying Study Finds

[applegrove]

People Who Are Anti-Abortion Are Also Sexist, Worrying Study Finds

by Nina Bahadur at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/anti-abortion-people-could-also-be-sexist_n_7260342.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

"SNIP...................



A new study has found a link between sexism and anti-abortion attitudes.

PhD candidate Stephanie Begun and professor N. Eugene Walls published a study in the May 2015 issue of peer-reviewed journal Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work linking sexist attitudes with anti-abortion sentiment, and proving no one is crazy for thinking that lack of access to abortion services have a lot to do with sexism.

Begun used data gathered from a previous survey of 651 undergraduate students from six universities, 70 percent or whom were female and 30 percent male. Analyzing their responses to a series of online surveys, she looked at three potential predictors of anti-choice attitudes: Hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, and combined scores of hostile and benevolent sexism together. Research suggests that benevolent sexism pigeonholes women into roles as nurturers and caregivers, and that women who seek abortions fail to live up to this ideal, hence the connection between benevolent sexism and abortion.

Participants were asked how much they agreed with "benevolent" sexist statements like "in a disaster, women ought to be rescued before men" and "a good woman should be set on a pedestal by her man," as well as hostile sexist statements like "women are too easily offended" and "feminists are seeking for women to have more power over men."




....................SNIP"

[okaawhatever]

1. K & R nt

[SharonAnn]

6. Right, water is wet.

[bullwinkle428]

2. At the risk of sounding snarky, this is some of the least shocking news I've

heard in a long time, sad as that may be.

[applegrove]

5. I do nuance. So the fact that there is a study spelling it out is good news to me. Bad non news is

that there still are dinosaurs out there in power using this as a wedge issue because they don't care about women.

[niyad]

3. ya think?

as I have said for decades, at the heart of each and every anti-choice argument lies a profound hatred for women, because each and every one of those arguments says that some THING or some ONE (the z/e/f), the sperm depositor, the state or the church, is more important than the woman.

[Raster]

16. Winner!

A profound hatred for women promulgated by patriarchal-centric religions, i.e., Christianity, Islam, Judaism.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. kick

[Kalidurga]

7. of course

very few people here will be surprised. I predict in 1..2..3.. we are going to hear the RW rebuttal and it will be "nuh uh."

[Ilsa]

8. Thank you. It's always good to have the numbers

to back up what we've observed.

[shenmue]

9. Yep

"Pro-life," the same bunch.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Adherents of patriarchal religions who deny women agency, sexist? Really?

Bears, right there in the woods?

[kelly1mm]

11. Is it possible for a female to be sexist? Lots of anti-abortion women but I am not sure

if they can be sexist similar to the argument how non-white people cannot be racist (as they lack institutional power). Bigoted yes, sexist ....... I don't know and I would think to be consistent with the non-whites (in the US at least) cannot be racist argument I would lean to no.

So, what do we call anti-abortion rights women?

[truebluegreen]

13. Of course they can be.

Some women think women shouldn't have the right to make their own decisions, shouldn't control their bodies, shouldn't defy their husbands, maybe even shouldn't vote (looking at you, Coultergeist!); they are as sexist as any macho shithead chauvinist pig.

[F4lconF16]

15. Good question, one I was meaning to ask a while ago. nt

[truebluegreen]

12. Totally not shocked...

The anti-abortion crowd is all about controlling the wimmins since they can't control themselves, or shouldn't.

[RufusTFirefly]

14. Whuuuut?