Narcissistic Women Favor Sexism

[crabby_lioness]

Women who feel entitled more likely to endorse benevolent sexism, study finds.

Duh, people.  My adoptive mother could have been Exhibit A.

Comments

[swordznsorcery]

That's interesting. I've always wondered about the astonishing sexism of my grandmother, and up to a point, this idea would help explain it. She was certainly very vain and self-centred. Her sexism was truly astounding, but her mother appears to have been a very strong, independent woman (I never met her, but she sounds that way), and her mother certainly was. My grandfather didn't encourage her beliefs either, as he was very careful to ensure that their daughter (my mother) didn't grow up sharing them

[crabby_lioness]

I'm not sure they tested hostile sexism, but my mother was both narcissistic and very mush a hostile misogynist. She was also lazy and hated any woman who showed her up by being good at anything.

[swordznsorcery]

They only mention benevolent sexism in the article, certainly. It warrants further study. It's certainly an interesting line of research, as it's difficult to understand what would make any woman believe herself to be inferior to men; at least without having been conditioned to think that by their upbringing. There certainly doesn't seem to have been anything in my grandmother's past that would have led her to truly believe such a thing, and yet it wa s a belief that she clearly expressed many times.

It does seem illogical though. If you're that vain, why would you think so much less of yourself? Maybe that's where some of their anger comes from.

[crabby_lioness]

Ah, but you're not a lesser creature so much as an alien creature. An angel, not an ape in the 19th century parlance; a "special snowflake" in modern terms.