Women tend to be more attuned to and offended by both types of sexism, reports Huffington Post about the study. But that doesn’t mean men are incorrigible: “When asked to empathize with the female targets of specific sexist incidents, male participants were less likely to sanction blatant sexism.”
Men, however, didn’t see “benevolent” sexism as an offense, reports HuffPo: “Men did not consider statements including ‘a good woman should be put on a pedestal’ or ‘in a disaster, women should be saved before men’ to be sexist.”
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