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Now do you hold the door open when you're at the door first and a female is coming,

maybe even a male, but for sure a female because that's what you've been bred to do, right?

Or at least what used to be bred to do.

Well a new study claims that there are two very different types of sexism.

Of course there is.

That can be detected among men with each form being distinguished by certain verbal and nonverbal expressions.

And oh my gosh, I can see where this is going.

These two types of biases, hostile sexism and benevolent

sexism. Oh my gosh. Posting that sexism isn't always accompanied by nasty or negative treatment.

Ha!

Man who put women on a pedestal may be a wolves in sheep clothing hindering gender equality.

Yeah, how dare you put women on the pedestal? How dare you?

The study titled Nonverbal and verbal expressions of men's sexism and mixed gender interactions and published in the Journal of Sex Roles

involved 27 pairs of male and female university age students.

The levels of sexism for the men were determined after giving them a test called the Ambivivodes Sexism Index.

Oh my gosh, do I want to take that test? Is it linked on here?

No.

What? No. The test called the Ambivalent Sexism Index, which asked them to respond to a series of questions and helped figure out whether they embraced more of a hostile

or but relevant form of sexism.

The study is especially interesting in that it presents the notion that positive attention can also, at least in the eyes of some, be a form of sexism.

Oh, really? Which is a point that Judith Hall of Northeastern University wanted to be sure

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