The average Joe isn’t looking so bad anymore.
A new study of young men in the UK found that those who saw themselves as most or least beautiful were more misogynistic than men who thought their features were more like the garden variety. .
Misogyny refers to the systemic devaluation and personal hatred of women by men throughout history, which manifests as sexism – the belief that one gender is superior to another – disdain, manipulation, among other abuses towards non-males. , assault and rape.
Researchers note that misogyny is at the root of fundamentalist, right-wing political ideologies and “incel” (involuntary celibate) culture. However, study author Jiwen Zhang and her colleagues at the University of Bergen in Norway wanted to find out whether various lifestyle and psychological factors, such as loneliness, sensitivity to rejection, perceived attractiveness and romantic relationships, also played a role.
His new research, published in The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology concluded that men who support right-wing authoritarianism as well as those with high or low self-perceived attractiveness “are associated with increased hostility toward women.”
The survey of 473 single, heterosexual men aged 18 to 35 in the UK explored patterns of hostile sexism, misogyny, self-perceived attractiveness, sensitivity to rejection, loneliness, gaming habits, symptoms of gaming addiction and possessiveness. The assessment involved a series of psychological evaluations. -Wing totalitarianism.
Perhaps counterintuitively, men with the fewest and most sexual partners were less hostile toward women than men with the average number of partners.
The researchers suggested that how men evaluate their appearance is “likely determined by their narcissistic qualities rather than the number of sexual partners they have had.”
Indeed, the results called into question many popular beliefs about the foundations of misogyny.
“The lack of support for our hypotheses about loneliness, rejection, and romantic and sexual partners is surprising given the number of studies linking such characteristics and relationships with hostility toward women,” the researchers wrote.
