If you believe men should protect, defend, and honor women — then social justice warriors believe that you just might be a sexist.
PBS published a quiz to test readers on their multilayered levels of sexism. People taking the questionnaire can see their standards of “hostile sexism,” behavior that overtly threatens, intimidates, or abuses women; or “benevolent sexism,” actions that men take that are based on feelings of superiority and dominance.
The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory questionnaire was created by Peter Glick of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and Susan Fiske of Princeton University. They were the two psychologists who developed the term ambivalent sexism.
“In short, hostile sexism represents the ideological stick, and benevolent sexism represents the carrot that men use to reinforce the gender status quo,” Glick wrote in 2007.
Feeling that men have obligations towards women — especially their significant others — my score was off the charts.
All of the questions asked if you slightly, somewhat, or strongly agreed with a particular premise. There was no way someone could be neutral or hold no position on any one issue. Such questions like the one that asked if “many women had a quality of purity that few men possess,” you had to take a position. I said slightly disagree because only some women hold a high level of purity in my personal experiences.
Other questions asked to if “women should be cherished and protected by men,” I answered strongly agree.
That answer probably makes me a patriarchal animal that has the same moral standing as most child molesters and Al Qaeda.
For the question ‘if every man should have a woman he adores,’ once again I answered yes. In most of my experiences, women civilize men, calm them down, and make them adults, and most men are willing to admit that it’s true.
Another question was if women complain if men defeat them in a fair competition. Once again, that’s not true for all women, but true of social justice warriors and feminists. They’ve thought up a series of terms to define why they lose to men, how they love beating up on men, how societal norms created by men have given them disadvantages, and how genetics in no way play a part.
All of the remaining questions played on to similar themes: do women use their sexuality for their benefit? Should men be ready to sacrifice for their women? Is there any moral superiority between the sexes?
While I don’t believe most women are looking for a man to save them, they’d like having someone willing to sacrifice, protect, love, and honor them. That notion is everything that feminists reject, and that’s why they’re so miserable and why fewer millennials are aligning themselves with the women’s empowerment movement.
