Science is Sexist

[rainbow]

These people are fucking ridiculous.

Absurdist humour at its best.

[NineBerry]

It's like beauty - the only reason we find fat people less attractive than thin people is a social construct built on discriminatory norms.

To account for male preferences for female body weight following a consistent socio-economic pattern, Nelson and Morrison (2005) proposed a social-cognitive model based on the individual experience of resource scarcity. We replicated their studies showing that calorific dissatisfaction can influence preference for female body weight using a different dependent variable, namely photographic stimuli of women with known body weight and shape. Using this revised methodology, we found that operationalized intra-individual resource scarcity affects preferences for body weight: 30 hungry male participants preferred figures with a higher body weight and rated as more attractive heavier figures than 31 satiated male participants. Hungrier men were also less likely to be influenced by cues for body shape, supporting extant cross-cultural studies on female physical attractiveness. These findings corroborate those of Nelson and Morrison (2005) and are discussed in terms of how cultural contexts shape individual psychological experience as predicted by the theory of mutual constitution.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 80713/full

[pErvinalia]

Science, sexist one minute, manginist the next...

[laklak]

Some likes 'em fat, some likes 'em skinny, some don't give a shit.

[rainbow]

It's like beauty - the only reason we find fat people less attractive than thin people is a social construct built on discriminatory norms.

To account for male preferences for female body weight following a consistent socio-economic pattern, Nelson and Morrison (2005) proposed a social-cognitive model based on the individual experience of resource scarcity. We replicated their studies showing that calorific dissatisfaction can influence preference for female body weight using a different dependent variable, namely photographic stimuli of women with known body weight and shape. Using this revised methodology, we found that operationalized intra-individual resource scarcity affects preferences for body weight: 30 hungry male participants preferred figures with a higher body weight and rated as more attractive heavier figures than 31 satiated male participants. Hungrier men were also less likely to be influenced by cues for body shape, supporting extant cross-cultural studies on female physical attractiveness. These findings corroborate those of Nelson and Morrison (2005) and are discussed in terms of how cultural contexts shape individual psychological experience as predicted by the theory of mutual constitution.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 80713/full

I concur.

In Africa, we prefer fat people when we are hungry.