RE: Gender reversal in the presidential debates
June 2, 2017 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2017 at 12:37 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(June 2, 2017 at 9:08 am)alpha male Wrote: http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publicatio...ersal.html
Apologies if this has already been discussed, but it's the first I saw it. Debates were recreated but with a male actor for Clinton, female for Trump. They used the debate text and studied the candidates movements, facial expressions, etc. Designers of the study expected it to demonstrate sexism, but it didn't.
I noticed that study a while ago. While I do believe sexism is both common and real, it is not always the prime culprit. Sometimes people are just foolish, asinine, or unpleasant in ways that can exaggerate underlying prejudices, even if one consciously tries to give them the benefit of the doubt. In the case of Hillary Clinton, she was just such a piss poor candidate and a truly awful and unpleasant person that even people who wanted to like her still had difficulty supporting her. In her case, sexism was a very insignificant and incidental consideration for those who did not support her.
