{"id":1830,"date":"2017-05-11T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkarmenia.org\/news-events\/study-confirms-men-who-make-sexist-and-anti-gay-jokes-feel-insecure-about-their-masculinity\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T07:50:37","slug":"study-confirms-men-who-make-sexist-and-anti-gay-jokes-feel-insecure-about-their-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/pinkarmenia.org\/en\/news-events\/study-confirms-men-who-make-sexist-and-anti-gay-jokes-feel-insecure-about-their-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Confirms Men Who Make Sexist and Anti-Gay Jokes Feel Insecure About their Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Q: Why haven\u2019t any women ever gone to the moon?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>A: It doesn\u2019t need cleaning yet!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you find that amusing? According to a newly published study, men who laugh at sexist and anti-gay jokes are mostly doing so because they are deeply insecure about their own manhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Laughing at such jokes helps them defend, restore or reaffirm their masculinity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWomen and gay men symbolize femininity, the antithesis of masculinity. Thus, by expressing disdain or prejudice against women and gay men, men higher in precarious manhood beliefs can distance themselves from the traits they want to disconfirm in themselves\u201d, writes a research team led by Western Carolina University psychologist Emma O\u2019Connor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">People initiate and enjoy disparagement humor more when they feel their social identity is being threatened. Interestingly, masculinity threat is unique to the sexist and anti-gay jokes; it did not emerge for anti-Muslim and neutral jokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study, conducted at Western Carolina University, used a two-pronged experiment involving 387 heterosexual men. After providing informed consent, they completed two allegedly separate and unrelated studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First, participants completed online questionnaires designed to assess their social attitudes and levels of potential prejudice and antagonism against women and gay men. Second, the types of humor (Sexist Jokes, Anti-Gay Jokes, Anti-Muslim Jokes, and Neutral Jokes) they preferred were tested and whether the men believed their jokes would help others get an accurate assessment of their personality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">O\u2019Connor also pointed out that gender norms create pressure for men to behave in gender-consistent ways. For instance, work settings where women occupy positions of authority might inherently trigger masculinity threat for men higher in precarious manhood beliefs and thus sexist joking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The researchers encourage workplace environments to help prevent sexist jokes and teasing, commonly experienced types of sexual harassment that women experience in the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBy understanding men\u2019s need to affirm masculinity as a motive for engaging in sexist humor, managers could more effectively respond to incidents of sexist humor as they occur, and possibly even prevent it. For instance, they might more closely monitor workplace settings that could trigger masculinity threats and subsequent sexist joking\u201d write O\u2019Connor and her colleagues, Thomas Ford and Noely Banos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By making a novel discovery of the psychological functions of sexist and anti-gay humor in social settings, the researchers hope the findings will help create a better understanding about the kinds of situations in which sexist and anti-gay jokes occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>The study\u2019s findings were <\/em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11199-017-0761-z\"><em>published<\/em><\/a><em> in Springer\u2019s April edition of the journal Sex Roles.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Why haven\u2019t any women ever gone to the moon? A: It doesn\u2019t need cleaning yet! Do you find that amusing? According to a newly published study, men who laugh at sexist and anti-gay jokes are mostly doing so because they are deeply insecure about their own manhood. Laughing at such jokes helps them defend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1402,"template":"","categories":[121],"tags":[],"news_events-categories":[122],"class_list":["post-1830","news_events","type-news_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","news_events-categories-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Study Confirms Men Who Make Sexist and Anti-Gay Jokes Feel Insecure About their Masculinity | Pink Armenia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Study Confirms Men Who Make Sexist and Anti-Gay Jokes Feel Insecure About their Masculinity Pink Armenia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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