Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists

[MADem]

380. All I can suggest is that you read the article carefully (pay no attention to the headline, that's

not the headline of the research article, which is The ironic impact of activists: Negative stereotypes reduce social change influence), then go look at the abstract, and if you can access that publication via your library portal, I urge you to go for it.

You say you don't think all women are feminists. I say I don't think all feminists are women--some people here on DU will argue that point, but that's never been my belief.

This research project--by four women and one man in Canada (so they're all neanderthals up there, all of a sudden? Except when they are not? All four of those women, scientists, researchers, are "anti-feminism?" I mean, really? Ya think?) dealt with "brash" and "uppity" and "aggressive" environmentalists, too--surely you aren't suggesting that all environmentalists are women? How does one explain their reception, save that when people (regardless of gender) are brash, rude, nasty, didactic, offensive, outrageous, insulting, belittling, and in-your-face, people tend to want to tell them to STFU. It's human nature. People don't LIKE mean people. Mean men, OR mean women. That's not rocket science.

I'm offended, too, by the way everyone jumped on the bandwagon when they thought some moke named Tom Jacobs was the architect of this piece--he was just the SALON reporter, repeating what he'd learned from a vetted psychological journal.

I will say that a lot of biases came to the fore in this thread after some folks here "skimmed" the OP and were ready to go to town. When you dig down, though, and see who did the research and how it was presented, it's not one of these "Let's put the women down" things at all.

It's basic Dale Carnegie, using two vibrant "activist" areas of interest as the petri dish for this experiment. Nothing more.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

A simple, non-gender specific axiom.

For that, I was excoriated as wanting women to "bow down" in a fact-free rant by one of our more vocal members. I don't want women to "bow down," or men to "bow down" either.

I think I'm like most people--I don't want to be insulted, I don't want people to be rude or nasty or condescending, and I prefer conversations to orders and demands.