“conventional wisdom holds that voters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prefer male candidates, presumably due to sexism. We test this conventional wisdom using a conjoint experiment administered to over 30,000 respondents in six MENA countries. We find both male and female respondents are more likely to express support for female candidates and see them as more capable than their male counterparts, even in stereotypically male domains.”
“In two survey experiments, I identify the gendered stereotypes of politicians in Brazil and estimate how they influence voters’ behavior toward hypothetical candidates who do or do not comply with those stereotypes. The findings suggest that voters hold positive stereotypes of women and a broad pro-female bias.”
“We collect 67 such studies from all over the world and reanalyze them using a standardized approach. We find that the average effect of being a woman (relative to a man) is a gain of approximately 2 percentage points.”
“Based on responses from 1,774 Canadian legislators, I find evidence of an overall gender bias in favor of female political aspirants. Specifically, legislators are more responsive to female political aspirants and more likely to provide them with helpful advice when they ask how to get involved in politics. This pro-women bias, which exists at all levels of government, is stronger among female legislators”
“On the whole, women politicians are evaluated on par with or significantly higher than men politicians across six characteristics, scoring especially well relative to men when politicians are presumed to be members of the opposing party and when traditionally feminine characteristics are assessed.”
“Our results suggest that, at least for productivity as measured in parliamentary-based activities, women politicians do not need to work harder than their men colleagues to satisfy voters.”
“These results have important implications, as they suggest that women politicians may not need to conform to stereotype-expected behaviours in order to receive positive voter evaluations.”
“When deciding between candidates of different genders, Democrats, and particularly Democratic women, preferred female candidates, while Republicans chose female and male candidates equally often. These patterns remained when controlling for respondents’ education, age, and political knowledge and for candidates’ age, attractiveness, and perceived conservativeness. Our results suggest that voter bias against women cannot explain female underrepresentation”
“we find no evidence in either experiment to suggest that female political executives (i.e., governors, premiers, and mayors) receive lower levels of credit than their male counterparts for positive governing performance. We do find evidence that female executives receive less blame than male executives for poor governing performance”
“On the voter demand-side, we show that there is no pro-male bias in general or in combination with other candidate traits nor that traits evaluated positively by voters appear more frequently among actual male candidates. On the supply-side, we find that women are less likely to be interested in running for political office.”
“more people, and women in particular, put higher trust in female compared to male political representatives than the other way round. We find that – at the individual level – gender, age and education have significant effects on political gender attitudes. Contrary to theory, however, the effect of gender is not mediated by beliefs about the proper role of women in politics and society”
“Using a single vignette survey experiment in five European countries, I show that voters have strong preferences for equal descriptive representation of men and women in political parties and prefer women as lead candidates”
“We analyzed 50 elections held from 1996 to 2016 in 24 countries. The results showed that female leaders were better evaluated by women and that women were more likely than men to vote for them.”
And its undeniable that female interests are pushed by the political establishment, as opposed to male interests, such as male healthcare: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31354093/
In Summary, politics is very open to women and female interests. the reason why there are fewer women in office is entirely caused by women’s choices.
Ok I had enough of this fuckin STANDARD we had everywhere in every kind of fiction, be it animated cartoons, motion picture, live action, comics, video games or even novels and books.
The standard of misandry being everywhere, enabled, praised, rationalized, painted in positive light and repeated infinitely.
Despite this being so blatantly forced onto our faces in nearly all shows we watch or read no one talks about, it’s the new default – taken for granted. And this is outrageous and as a person that really enjoys fiction it pisses me off extremely.
Of course this topic was accounted for by people who enjoy misandry the most – feminists. To cover that issue they constantly and consistently keep blatantly accusing fiction of misogyny which is designed to cover up the issue of how fiction is infested with misandry. To see that all you need to do is type ,,misandry in anime” in google and at least some of the first page result will display misogyny topic instead.
In this post I would like to mainly focus on anime as this is one of my most beloved forms of fiction. Unfortunately misandry in anime is off the chart even compared to Hollywood movies or Netflix shows. And it was like that for at least a decade – anime was full of extreme anti-male portrayals waaay before Holywood entered GhostBusters 2016 was even planned (not to say movies were not anti-male before).
So why do I think it is worse in anime than other types of fiction? It is because anime does the very best job at realistically portraying how vulnerable and suffering inside men are. It is very often extremely realistic – characters in anime are rarely one sided, at least the protagonist ones. This is the exact reason why misandry here is multiplied – because other types of media unless specifically focus on it – rarely can achieve similar level of portrayal of feelings and mentality.That is why I find misandry in anime brutal even compared to misandry in fiction standards.
And here comes first poisonous rationalization of misandry in anime, as there is one universal rule in the world
If there is manhate somewhere, both men and women, but mainly men are going to do everything in their power to cover for it, enable it and rationalise it. Always and everywhere.
There is a forum called animeforum.com and one of the users created a long, informative, concerned post about misandry in anime – and those are some answers he got
First thing we can clearly conclude from the answer is that this user is not oblivious to the issue – he or she sees it, notices it and is perfectly aware of what is happening. Then the user is trying to downplay it – ‘’it is not intended as women hating or abusing men, it’s for comedy”. It’s like saying someone poisoned water in public waterworks that 1000 people drink from. But it was not intended to harm them. It’s just for testing the poison, not for harming them. Would you believe it?
The comedy argument is the worst out there, and people fall for it all the time. Would it still be comedy if you reverse the genders? Would people still laugh if male characters broke female noses, curb stomped them, kicked them in the crotch, killed them with powerful spells or threw grenades at them because they went into the room while they were dressing or said something they did not like? No one would say ,,it’s a comedy cmon” at this point – people would immediately treat it as promoting violence and accuse people who watch it of being crazy maniacs. I am gonna prove that later.
To be honest, deep down, despite the fact that people are extremely desensitized to the portrayal of female on male violence I think the author of this post knows that this is not really comedy – because he rationalizes it by his false interpretation of Japanese history and Japan is a real nation, not fictional one. He uses one of the most misandrist, male gaslighting terms which is patriarchy – in short it’s blaming men for something that never happened. It is even worse here because he implies that in the past Japanese traditional gender roles meant men were constantly violently abusing women so now modern fiction is playing the trope of reversing it and portraying women abusing men all the time. That is some NASTY GASLIGHTING but in a way that still allows for plausible deniability.
The worst thing is the ,,it’s just fiction bro” argument many users make
It is worse because first it implies fiction does not affect society, how people think, how they act. How come then during ww2 both Germans and Russians spend enormous amounts of money to produce propaganda movies, art and radio programs? And how come this propaganda worked as men were throwing their lives in nearly guaranteed peril and others who do not fight increased their productivity greatly? Why did they not just think ,,hey bro – this propaganda is just fiction, why won’t we separate fiction from reality”? Were they all idiots? Were they all surely that less intelligent than post authors who appeal to its just a fiction? I doubt it.
How is it possible men get hard while watching hentai, naked cgi beauties or acted sex scenes in movies? How is it possible women get wet while reading romance novels or get attracted to non-existent vampires from Twilight? Cannot they just think ,,it’s just a fiction, fiction fiction fiction fiction fiction fiction fiction” and detach from it 100%? Well I presume the author of the post would like to think that everyone is an idiot but he is the smart one – but reality is different. Those people do not register their hentai waifus as residents of their house, they do not move to the country where Edward lives to meet him. They know those characters and their worlds are not real. But this fiction still affects them EMOTIONALLY. This is what fiction is designed to do – affects audience emotion, makes them feel it’s real while they know it’s not.
Therefore making fiction infested in one sided – female on male and male on male abuse has its externalities. This user summed it up perfectly
Now I promise I will prove to you that people react differently to violence depending which gender is using it. The unspoken standard is this (sorted from most default and desirable to most looked down upon)
Female on male violence – Most popular, standard default of all forms of fiction. Contrary to what people think it is not always weaker female characters using violence on stronger male characters what happens the most. This is also the only instance where character can be extremely sadistic over weaker characters, torture, murder then and not be considered antagonist/villain but either redeemed or just be a protagonist, just doing actions only reserved for antagonists if character gender was not female. It is also portrayed in the most violent/gore way across boundaries that specific art allows. Usually on screen.
Male on male violence – Second most popular, pretty much a background standard for every form of fiction.
Female on female violence – If there is a female antagonist that was made very unlikable (still often redeemed – audience is not able to fully hate any female character even if they eat children for dinner on screen) then what is mostly happening author or director will go out of his way, even make plot hole or other nonsense just to force situation where female character die/is defeated at the hands of another female character.
Male on female violence – this one is absolutely AVOIDED at all costs. If it must be portrayed only in edge cases and ONLY if male character is supposed to be an extremely evil/100% unlikable villain (that will be 1000000% punished for it with more gruesome violence) or when the character will be an anti-hero (will be punished too). It is always LEAST gore/gruesome and often happens off screen. Even more often violence toward female characters is never done but just implied as either male character resigns from it or female character is saved in last women, very often taking more brutal revenge immediately.
It is worth mentioning that point 1 is roughly 99 times more likely to occur than number 4. Number 4 especially if graphics are very hard to come by.
But I have watched at least 50 anime series so I can look for some. Let see how people react to them
You can clearly see the difference. I left out comments that accuse people who are able to watch those kinds of scenes without disgust as mentally ill.
Now another proof – compare reactions – to male side character being killed
And sadistic female side character in same episode
You see the difference? Most people (which are men when we talk about anime) are critically SERIOUS and absolutely against depiction of any violence toward female characters in anime. That is the moment when you can clearly see how the all ,,it is just a fiction argument” is total bullshit.
Why is it then that male on female violence is looked upon, either serves as an edge case tool to make a scene extremely dramatic (usually it is portrayed in a way less bloody, gory way and often most of it appears offscreen. Also dramatic music, slowmo is used to show female being in pain or peril as the most emotional moment of entire art) or to show people this is the very bad antagonist because he committed greater of all crimes (made something bad to a female character) and that THEY MUST HATE HIM and root for his punishment. Of course he will be ALWAYS punished, usually on screen, with gore, optional humiliation and no slow-mo, no epic music. This moment when he is punished is supposed to be the moment the audience feels JUSTICE!
That is it – if you want to have a male character audience likes and will not be punished (sometimes will but people will slightly miss him) he must always hold back in a fight with villainess-es and accept all punishment female protagonists put him through.
Now how does it look with female on male violence? Well – best that can happen is people don’t notice it. If you point it out to them they will just say ,,it’s because those female characters are badass”. It is quite interesting as no one would say ,,a male character is just badass so it’s explained” if the reverse situation happened on screen.
So to sum it up, the female on male violence audience either does not notice it as anything other than a normal few frames in anime or actually craves it. YES – for some reason especially in the last 20 years of anime female on male violence is not only a must be – it’s generally seen as AWESOME, the more the better. Exactly opposite of male character on female character one.
People actually prefer if a male mc (main character) fights a female villain or any female character to be totally obliterated, beaten up, possibly dismembered, humiliated, to be shown how low a piece of shit he is.
What surprises me to no end is how there is a scene where mc just saved a female character from death or did a big favour to her. She kicks him in the balls, breaks his nose with a fist, slaps him or even uses weapons on him – and it is considered CUTE. Would reverse be seen as cute? Hell no.
Generally speaking – majority of anime are full of white knighting mixed with excessive amounts of female on male violence. Of course they have no problem to portray the same female character who beaten up/wounded male characters being kidnapped (while other male characters got killed) and being a damsel in distress mc will passionately save.
It already looks like a perfect feminist propaganda right there. Most of people who rate whether anime was or not taken over by feminists judge this solely on whether erotic content is present in this anime. If it is, they assume this anime was done against wishes of feminists and it is a proof of how Japan, unlike West Europe or the US, is resistant to this female supremacy political movement. If there is no nudity then it was surely tackled and taken over by feminists.
It is an extremely narrow and simple minded criteria, in my opinion this is actually like those people want to pretend anime and Japan is feminist free to feel good, this purposeful foolishness is in fact a coping mechanism.
The sole fact of what is allowed, encouraged and recommended to be shown on a screen (female on male violence) and what is nearly totally banned (opposite) shows that anime, like other sorts of arts, are 100% controlled by feminists as we speak. If anything slips through their fingers it was accepted by them. Like with prohibition – some women liked to drink too so it was lifted.
So what 99% of anime contains, lets see
This female character is not an antagonist – do not get punished for anything, everyone in the comments of other videos, dedicated to her talk about how she is awesome, badass and how they love her. They even praise her on the wiki page of anime)
It’s been 16 years since the anime airing date, no one created a similar story with reversed genders? Oh what a freaking coincidence
Ofc this female character is the protagonist. Notice how she has no problem executing immobilized enemy but when a female team member turns on them she and other heroine prefer to not attack/fight/kill her despite the fact that she is already endangering them (you can say she was her comrade – Revy has no problem beating her male comrades). This is very common pattern in anime. Kill innocent men, spare dangerous female foes. OFC at this point some people points out main heroine is a cold blooded killer but try to rationalize it. They would not rationalize this scene if genders were reversed.
This is how queen and high ranking female officer treat a boy who is the only one able to win a war and save them
Also its not only hard violence as I am not talking adult anime only. Anime for teenagers are filled up to maximum with scenes when male characters does something female characters does not like and they beat them up for that. Then male character is portrayed as something both pathetic and funny (often drawing changes to very badly drawed contours of him) and female as a serious, proud, satisfied spotlighted goddes in her moment to shine. There is so much of it there are compilations online
Of course sometimes creators give people hints at real female nature. Almost like they are afraid to show what they really want.
The absolute worst part of it is this – example from reddit (reply to post of someone worried about misandry in anime)
So here you have it. This is gaslighting 101. All current situation when female characters in anime have different standards, can be more cruel and violent toward males than any male villain in any form of art while still being praised as positive character, can abuse, humiliate and do whatever they want – all fiction portrayal holds allowed and encouraged while the reverse is nearly non existent due to writers awareness of how quickly it would be banned and how quickly feminists will destroy them.
All this situation is fuckin portrayed as retaliation, as liberation of women who are forced to be passive and non-violent (even ww2 concentration camps had female commanders) by society. That never happen – women prefer to be seen as less dangerous/aggressive so that they can gatekeep position of default perceived victim. But now they will retaliate over something that is firstly a lie, and secondly lie invented by them – women. This is multi – level gaslighting and then on top of that punishing men for results of their gaslighting.
I frankly can’t stand it. Not only in anime, but everywhere.
Am I against portrayals of violence in anime? NO!
I just want this to be so blatantly only allowed one sided, I want this double standards in fiction and feminist censorship gone.
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