BREAKING: Some Dudes on the Internet Refuse to Believe Sexism Is a Thing
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The study, published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly, examined the hellhole that is the comments sections of articles reporting on experimental evidence of gender bias in STEM. It found that — surprise! — (some) men on the internet will go to great lengths to excuse or justify sexism, even when they’re looking right at the scientific data. More specifically, the study noted:
9.5% of the comments argued that sexism does not exist; 68% of these were from men.
67.4% of the comments agreed that gender bias exists; 29% of these were from men.
22% of all of the comments justified the existence of gender bias; between 79% and 88% of these were from men.
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