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Be interesting to reverse the scenario - what happens when a man enters an all female arena and threatens the hierarchy? In my experience women are just as capa

Be interesting to reverse the scenario - what happens when a man enters an all female arena and threatens the hierarchy? In my experience women are just as capable of banding together to ostracise an outsider.

mrxd 9y ago
What do you mean by “just as capable”? This research studied a case where men did not band together, but that low status men behaved differently from high status men.
- Boothroid 9y ago
  Fair enough, my language was a little careless. The finding is interesting, but wouldn't it be more interesting still if they had performed the same study with the sexes reversed also? We would then know for definite if there is a sex difference in behaviour. As it is we don't know. Women are just as capable of bad behaviour as men, and to think otherwise is to subscribe to the sugar and spice and all things nice school of sexism. Also, imagine substituting men and women for black and white, or jew/non-jew, etc. I suspect the ethics board might be asking questions.
  - tzar 9y ago
    This study is asking a question, and that question is not which sex engages in bad behavior! That's an oddly antagonistic approach to the subject. Are there other interesting questions out there? You bet. But studies are performed one at a time.
  - 95014_refugee 9y ago
    ... because that’s not the question the study was addressing. We know that lower-status members of a community tend to be more hostile to newcomers / outsiders. The specific question here was ‘does this apply in this particular circumstance’. Incidentally, your agenda is showing.
  - mrxd 9y ago
    What I took from this study is not that men are bad, but that bad behavior towards women is ultimately caused by male dominance hierarchies. It suggests that the best way to reduce hostility to women is by eliminating those hierarchies rather than just stigmatizing men in general.

mrxd 9y ago

What do you mean by “just as capable”? This research studied a case where men did not band together, but that low status men behaved differently from high status men.

Boothroid 9y ago
Fair enough, my language was a little careless. The finding is interesting, but wouldn't it be more interesting still if they had performed the same study with the sexes reversed also? We would then know for definite if there is a sex difference in behaviour. As it is we don't know. Women are just as capable of bad behaviour as men, and to think otherwise is to subscribe to the sugar and spice and all things nice school of sexism. Also, imagine substituting men and women for black and white, or jew/non-jew, etc. I suspect the ethics board might be asking questions.
- tzar 9y ago
  This study is asking a question, and that question is not which sex engages in bad behavior! That's an oddly antagonistic approach to the subject. Are there other interesting questions out there? You bet. But studies are performed one at a time.
- 95014_refugee 9y ago
  ... because that’s not the question the study was addressing. We know that lower-status members of a community tend to be more hostile to newcomers / outsiders. The specific question here was ‘does this apply in this particular circumstance’. Incidentally, your agenda is showing.
- mrxd 9y ago
  What I took from this study is not that men are bad, but that bad behavior towards women is ultimately caused by male dominance hierarchies. It suggests that the best way to reduce hostility to women is by eliminating those hierarchies rather than just stigmatizing men in general.