Feminists (and their men) have more fun

[seabeyond]

Busting stereotypes that peg feminists as man-haters, a new study shows that having a feminist partner is linked with healthier, more romantic heterosexual relationships. The study, published online this week in the journal Sex Roles, relied on surveys of both college students and older adults, finding that women with egalitarian attitudes do find mates and men do find them attractive. In fact, results reveal they are having a good time, maybe a better time than the non-feminists.

Both men and women are prone to holding negative views of feminists, the authors say. Along with the sexually unattractive stereotype, some women also view feminism as a movement for victims, or for women who aren't competent enough to achieve success on their own merit, according to the Rutgers University researchers.

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Older adults have more life experience "and thus may be more likely to show an incompatibility between feminism and romantic relationships," Rudman and Phelan write. While younger females likely grew up with the attitude that "women can have it all," the researchers note older women may have come of age in the era following U.S. women's suffrage (1919) or during the women's movement that emerged in the 1960s. The researchers looked at people's perception of their own feminism, their partner's feminism and whether they had positive views of feminists and career women. Other survey measures included overall relationship quality, agreement about gender equality, relationship stability and sexual satisfaction.

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College-age women who reported having feminist male partners also reported higher quality relationships that were more stable than couples involving non-feminist male partners.
College guys who were themselves feminists and had feminist partners reported more equality in their relationships.
Older women who perceived their male partners as feminists reported greater relationship health and sexual satisfaction.
Older men with feminist partners said they had more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21364055#.T32avfCvhq0

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having been in the dating sphere for so long when i was younger and then being married for 18 yrs, i totally agree. for many reasons.

[whathehell]

1. Relationships between two mutually perceived equals are sexier and more fun!

I had the "other kind" in the pre-feminist days of my youth,

so I DO have a basis of comparison!.

[seabeyond]

2. i have never experienced a man that was not

able to be respectful, so i dont have a comparison. but, it only makes sense to me, when one takes away or another allows their power to be taken, that it would not be healthy. one way or another, i see how that never works.

[redqueen]

5. Same here

[zazen]

3. if only for the more explicit communication alone

--particularly in that "sex" has been constructed around heterosexual penetration as the norm such that communication is required to the extent one needs to expand beyond that for fulfillment.

Women who are terrified of looking "slutty" or selfish or whatever in front of their traditional male partners are much less able to ask for what they want, and those guys are much less able to (or probably even willing to) figure it out.

I won't even go into the 500 other reasons this report makes sense.

[seabeyond]

4. this would be another reason... lol,

ya.

"I won't even go into the 500 other reasons this report makes sense."

yup

[Scuba]

6. 5,000? 5,000,000,000?

This is such a no-brainer... oh, wait. THAT'S why Wingers don't get it.

[seabeyond]

7. wingers? we have a number of men continually tell us we are repressed, anti sexual

asexual, prudes, pearl clutchers, having vapors and swooning on the couch.

yes. it is a no brainer.

yet still, we have men continually repeat this about feminists.

here

on our progressive board.

because we dont agree on a couple of particular issues, or we see them in a gray as opposed to a black and white.

i hate this issue always being relegated to the rw knuckledragging men.

[Scout]

8. not just men ... there's a number of women who do it too. n/t

[redqueen]

9. Yep. nt

[Scuba]

10. Sadly I'm sure you're correct.