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> Benevolent sexism

I mean, when attending a birthday or christmas party, who buys the presents?

Bias means that judgment about a topic doesn't match reality. But is it really bias (or even more loadedly "sexism") to think that stereotypical women do more likable things if we were to assume that was perhaps actually true?

Imagine, for example, saying that it's "benevonent species-ism" to think that animals are on average more likely to be quadrupedal than humans. That'd be a silly assertion, because we know for a fact that this is true, and because the idea of more legs being better is weird for human standards. This thought exercise then begs the question: if we do think that thinking "women are nicer" is a form of bias, then what is the reality? Is the implication that they are not? That niceness should account for things other than nurturing attributes? According to who?

IMHO, the more interesting aspect of the observation of this effect is what it says about the people talking about it.



> I mean, when attending a birthday or christmas party, who buys the presents?

This one confuses me, are you saying that it's a given that women are the one buying presents and men aren't? I've not seen that, nor heard that be the stereotype.


I don't know if more legs being better is weird or that it's just likely to be untrue past quadrupedal in this instance.

That being said, Octopi are known to bond with humans and I find them pretty neat.




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