Objectification suppresses women’s desire to engage in social activism

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The first experiment tested whether female college students who valued appearance-based attributes like “physical attractiveness” over competence-based attributes like “physical fitness” were more or less likely to accept the current state of gender relations.

Calogero found that women who placed greater value on appearance-based attributes were more likely to accept the status quo. Not surprisingly, those who accepted the status quo were also less likely to speak out about gender equality or sign a petition in support of women’s rights.

Raw Story
[link:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/11/objectification-suppresses-womens-desire-to-engage-in-social-activism-study-finds/|

[Deep13]

1. Interesting.

Superficial women are more passive than functionally-thinking women. Seems kind of obvious now that someone has spelled it out.