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In which she summarises the summaries
May. 21st, 2008 10:09 pmwithout having actually read the original studies:
1. Listening to sexist humour makes people act in a more sexist way than listening either to non-sexist humour or to sexist statements.
2. Being powerless impairs cognitive functioning -- allowing -isms and other hierarchies to be self-perpetuating.
(IIRC, one of these was via Figleaf and the other via Bitchy Jones. OTOH I'm not entirely all here this week so I may be wrong. OTGH they're both good blogs anyway.)
1. Listening to sexist humour makes people act in a more sexist way than listening either to non-sexist humour or to sexist statements.
2. Being powerless impairs cognitive functioning -- allowing -isms and other hierarchies to be self-perpetuating.
(IIRC, one of these was via Figleaf and the other via Bitchy Jones. OTOH I'm not entirely all here this week so I may be wrong. OTGH they're both good blogs anyway.)
