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Tuesday, January 12th, 2021

Hegemonic masculinity predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations

Author:     Theresa K. Vescio and Nathaniel E. C. Schermerhorn
Source:     Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publication Date:     PNAS January 12, 2021 118
Link: Hegemonic masculinity predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations
Stephan:   Based on research I have been tracking for years I have been telling my readers about the correlations between male dominance, "hegemonic masculinity" as it is called in this research report, White supremacy, and christofascism. Now we have new research published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that is quite definitive. The thing you want to note is that many women support hegemonic masculinity. This is what makes gender equality so difficult to achieve in our culture. But, more than that, this is what fuels the biases of the Republican Party.
Trumpers at the insurrection

Significance

Donald J. Trump’s history-making ascension from nonpolitician to president of the United States has been attributed to the antiestablishment, antielitist, and nativist populism of Trump voters, as well as to sexism, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia. Based on the findings of seven studies involving 2,007 people, men’s and women’s endorsement of hegemonic masculinity predicted support for Trump over and beyond the aforementioned factors, even when controlling for political party affiliation. Results highlight the importance of looking beyond social identity–based conceptualizations of masculinity to fully consider how men’s and women’s endorsement of cultural ideologies about masculinity legitimate patriarchal forms of dominance and reify gender-, race-, and class-based hierarchies.

Abstract

This work examined whether the endorsement of the culturally idealized form of masculinity—hegemonic masculinity (HM)—accounted for unique variance in men’s and women’s support for Donald Trump across seven studies (n = 2,007). Consistent with our theoretical backdrop, in the days (Studies 1 and 2) and months (Studies 3 through 6) following the 2016 American presidential election, women’s and men’s endorsement of HM predicted voting for and evaluations of Trump, over […]

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1 Comment

  1. Lauren Raine on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 5:24 pm

    Recall the Women’s Marches, when millions of women and men around the world marched. There were 800,000 in Los Angeles alone. An awful lot of women were appalled by Trump, and the toxic masculinity that he represents. An interesting statistic about the evolution of fascist governments, whether the Taliban, Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy, shows that almost immediately the powers of women are removed in these male violent societies.