Online Bullying Due to Low Status, not Misogyny

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This suggests that men behaved according to a social hierarchy. When they were performing poorly – i.e. they were lower status – they did not challenge a male-voiced teammate, but they did challenge a female-voiced one.

This was supported by our results exploring skill level –- our proxy for an individual’s position in the hierarchy. Skill level didn’t affect how men behaved towards another man, but men lower in skill were less positive in the female-voiced treatment.

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Interestingly, higher-skilled men were more positive towards women, but not men.

The take-home seems to be that, just like bullies, the men most likely to have their position in a hierarchy usurped by a woman turned out to be meaner.

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i would imagine this evolutionary/cultural psychology is behind all the issues that silicon valley have with gender inclusion. computer programming is becoming more popular but is still seen as a beta/weak interest and hobby. this leads to a self-perception of lower status, which injects this paradigm in the mindset of the majority of programmers. add in the fact that it's not that popular with females, and you get a bunch of low status betas socializing without many girls around.

these scenarios show a slice of the modern, progressive feminist wave. it's kind of in conflict with the modern "transgender" movement, as the Big Left is promoting the concept that gender roles and identification involve these very choices. the modern feminist want a society where there are no such gender roles and identification and every possible interest or industry has equal representation (in the general population and power structure) by sex.