Does powerlessness motivate men and women to endorse sexism?

[SolitarySolace]

1.2.1 Men's powerlessness and hostile sexism
We propose that men who feel powerless should be relatively more motivated to endorse hostile sexism. Hostile sexism offers a way of elevating men's access to power by derogating and threatening women, such as characterizing women as inferior to men…

1.2.2 Women's powerlessness and benevolent sexism
We propose that women who feel powerless should be relatively more motivated to endorse benevolent sexism. Benevolent sexism emphasizes women's unique power in interpersonal and domestic domains, including women's deservingness of praise for caregiving qualities and capacity for emotional warmth…

- onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.3092

Yes

No

[Hardon-Collider]

What men and women have in common is spirit. Our bodies are very different. Thus if we want to eliminate sexism we have to tap into our spiritual selves and not rely on the body doing the automation of our behavior.

Any form of powerlessness increases along with sexism because individual decision making deminishes.

Before i go on, i have to ask: do you really think that the unicorn "perfect wife" is a powerless one whose dish-washing relfexes are just the muscles jerking lifelessly like a beheaded bird's wings? Or do you want a partner who chooses to care for you willingly?

She's really not a good person if she never had the option to be bad.

Take procrastination or learned helplessness as the worst forms or powerlessness. People await their bodies to take them wherr they need without applying any willpower or discernment effort. That's really the root cause of not just sexism but of the reason that sexism even needs to exist.

Because no gender stereotype would even fit anyone if everyone decided to actively deal away with the negative natural inclinations of their bodies.

[Gwendoline]

What is sexism in 2026? I think men aren't intrested in endorsing politics that aren't in their best intrests or unfair to them, women too as they are mothers, daughters, nieces, wives of men. Why would any woman support something thats unfair to the men in their lives?

[LaureenVO]

Yes, it has been proven that insecure men are more sexist (in general), to try and get some control/to feel better about themself