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lightcastle) wrote2010-08-20 10:26 pm
lightcastle) wrote2010-08-20 10:26 pm
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Neurosexism and hooking up.
It's a nice term in this article on the whole men and womens brains are wired completely differently.
(This also gives me an excuse to point to Echidne's Statistics Primer.)
The general point is summarized thusly,
There may be slight variations in the brains of women and men, added Fine, a researcher at Melbourne University, but the wiring is soft, not hard.
As long as we're discussing social science, here's an article looking at the whole hookup culture issue and its effects on adolescents and young adults. Unsurprisingly for some of us, "hooking up" wasn't invented in the 90s and so there is some research on it.
The research shows that there is some truth to popular claims that hookups are bad for women. However, it also demonstrates that women’s hookup experiences are quite varied and far from uniformly negative and that monogamous, long-term relationships are not an ideal alternative. Scholarship suggests that pop culture feminists have correctly zeroed in on sexual double standards as a key source of gender inequality in sexuality.
And while this line is specifically women-focused, I rather think it applies more generally.
For most women, the costs of bad hookups tended to be less than costs of bad relationships. Bad hookups were isolated events, while bad relationships wreaked havoc with whole lives.
(This also gives me an excuse to point to Echidne's Statistics Primer.)
The general point is summarized thusly,
There may be slight variations in the brains of women and men, added Fine, a researcher at Melbourne University, but the wiring is soft, not hard.
As long as we're discussing social science, here's an article looking at the whole hookup culture issue and its effects on adolescents and young adults. Unsurprisingly for some of us, "hooking up" wasn't invented in the 90s and so there is some research on it.
The research shows that there is some truth to popular claims that hookups are bad for women. However, it also demonstrates that women’s hookup experiences are quite varied and far from uniformly negative and that monogamous, long-term relationships are not an ideal alternative. Scholarship suggests that pop culture feminists have correctly zeroed in on sexual double standards as a key source of gender inequality in sexuality.
And while this line is specifically women-focused, I rather think it applies more generally.
For most women, the costs of bad hookups tended to be less than costs of bad relationships. Bad hookups were isolated events, while bad relationships wreaked havoc with whole lives.