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Angry Men Make the World Go Round, Angry Women are Incompetent Bitches

Submitted by Rahodeb

Edited by Rahodeb

Tags: anger, sexism



A new study presented at Yale University on Friday showed that angry men are admired and even rewarded for their ferocity, but that angry women are seen as incompetent, out of control, and even penalized in the workplace.

Post-doctoral scholar Victoria Brescoll "conducted three tests in which randomly recruited men and women watched videos of a job interview and were asked to rate the applicant's status and assign them a salary."

In the first, the scripts were identical except where the candidate described feeling either angry or sad about losing an account due to a colleague's late arrival at a meeting.

Participants conferred the most status on the man who said he was angry, the second most on the woman who said she was sad, slightly less on the man who said he was sad, and least of all by a sizable margin on the woman who said she was angry.

In the second exeperiment, participants rated the angry female CEO as significantly less competent than all of the others, and in the third, "the angry woman with a good reason to be angry was awarded a much higher salary than the angry woman who provided no excuse, though it was still less than the men."

The average salary assigned to the angry man was almost $38,000 compared to about $23,500 for the angry woman and in the region of $30,000 for the other two candidates.

Brescoll referenced Hillary Clinton in the paper, noting that she was described last year as "too angry to be elected president" by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.

"As Senator Clinton's experience suggests, however, for a professional woman anger expression may lead to a decrease rather than an increase in her status," Brescoll wrote.

Man, that really pisses me off.

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audiophiliac

audiophiliac

Portland, OR
September 2006

AUG 05, 2007 04:02 AM

Whenever I get angry I usually get sent home, the next day the office is all quiet

mahogany

mahogany

I'm lost
May 2005

AUG 05, 2007 04:36 AM

The video at the end is awesome.

Jennifer_

Jennifer_

Venezuela
November 2006

AUG 05, 2007 04:40 AM

Rahodeb said:
A new study presented at Yale University on Friday showed that angry men are admired and even rewarded for their ferocity, but that angry women are seen as incompetent, out of control, and even penalized in the workplace.


The other side of this is that if a woman is less assertive, she's thought of as being too weak to actually handle a position of power, thus meaning that women tend to get screwed either way.

If Hillary Clinton was any less forceful, I can promise that she would be met with criticisms of 'well, she seems nice and all, but is she really strong enough to lead a country?'.

Most people seem to think;
Are you an angry woman? Then you're an incompetent, irrational bitch with PMS that shouldn't be employed by anyone, ever!
or
Are you a demure, polite woman? Then you're too weak and silly to be employed by anyone, ever!

I like to mix it up and be a polite but angry woman, it seems to confuse people. Also, that way you get to let the Catch-22 twunts know that they're twunts.

pariah002

pariah002

Yugoslavia
July 2003

AUG 05, 2007 04:54 AM

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Jennifer_ said:

Rahodeb said:
A new study presented at Yale University on Friday showed that angry men are admired and even rewarded for their ferocity, but that angry women are seen as incompetent, out of control, and even penalized in the workplace.


The other side of this is that if a woman is less assertive, she's thought of as being too weak to actually handle a position of power, thus meaning that women tend to get screwed either way.

If Hillary Clinton was any less forceful, I can promise that she would be met with criticisms of 'well, she seems nice and all, but is she really strong enough to lead a country?'.

Most people seem to think;
Are you an angry woman? Then you're an incompetent, irrational bitch with PMS that shouldn't be employed by anyone, ever!
or
Are you a demure, polite woman? Then you're too weak and silly to be employed by anyone, ever!


I like to mix it up and be a polite but angry woman, it seems to confuse people. Also, that way you get to let the Catch-22 twunts know that they're twunts.



That rocks the house. Polite angry women rule.

BillEsty

BillEsty

Olyphant, PA
December 2006

AUG 05, 2007 05:20 AM

Loved the video!! smile

SatansPetCat

Satanspetcat

Bellevue, WA
January 2006

AUG 05, 2007 06:50 AM

violent CRIME!!!!!!

Hilarious video.

MetaTag

MetaTag

United Kingdom
September 2002

AUG 05, 2007 06:55 AM

It would be interesting to know if there was a different bias among the male and female participants who rated the salaries. For example, do men and women perceive angry men and women in the same fashion and if they have a bias, is it to the same extent?

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

AUG 05, 2007 07:07 AM

MetaTag said:
It would be interesting to know if there was a different bias among the male and female participants who rated the salaries. For example, do men and women perceive angry men and women in the same fashion and if they have a bias, is it to the same extent?



Indeed.

NickFaust

NickFaust

USA
April 2004

AUG 05, 2007 07:19 AM

Well, at least now we truly understand the resistance to a Hillary Clinton presidency.

Markus001

Markus001

United Kingdom
November 2004

AUG 05, 2007 07:25 AM

Call me simplistic, but I see it like this. An aggressive, arsehole of a man is an aggressive arsehole of a man and an aggressive bitch is an aggressive bitch. I don't care what gender you are, if you're acting like a fucker towards me, I respond in kind. It's just weird that this kind of stuff still exists in this age. I guess for some people, sexism is their way of clinging onto some sort of superiority complex they love to have to make them feel better about themselves.

punk

punk

Phoenix, AZ
January 2004

AUG 05, 2007 07:36 AM

Conclusion: the people who participated in the survey are nimrods.

freshprncebelair

freshprncebelair

Ellicott City, MD
June 2004

AUG 05, 2007 08:43 AM

punk said:
Conclusion: the people who participated in the survey are nimrods.



Im not so sure about it. I doubt it was a conscious reaction, but instead, a deep ingrained societal conditioning about the roles of women ms men in society.

Waldo_Jeffers

Waldo_Jeffers

United Kingdom
OLD SKOOL

AUG 05, 2007 08:54 AM

audiophiliac said:
Whenever I get angry I usually get sent home, the next day the office is all quiet



The silence in the office is clearly a sign of the new found respect that your anger has inspired your colleagues to feel towards you. wink

SivaDelFuego

SivaDelFuego

Minneapolis, MN
January 2003

AUG 05, 2007 09:06 AM

Too angry? That's not just something the republicans say about Hillary Clinton, they are all over saying it about Al Franken (who is running for US Senate) in MN, too. The setup is this - Republicans are experts at fucking America. People get angry. Some, in fact, so angry the run for office so they can make a change. The Republican strategy is this - call them "too angry to be x," where x is you political office, President, Senator, Representative, Governor, whatever.

I'm quite frankly happy with their stretegy. Why? Because it won't work worth a shit. People are angry and they vote for angry people all the time. Nobody wants a lackadaisy-hapy-go-sucky keep-it-the-same dillhole mcfuckstick in office. Well, not nobody, but not enough. Not in 2008.

formerviking

formerviking

Denver, PA
May 2006

AUG 05, 2007 09:25 AM

NickFaust said:
Well, at least now we truly understand the resistance to a Hillary Clinton presidency.



Yep , couldn't have anything with her consistent support of the Iraq war or anything . Yep , couldn't be that at all ...
And yes Nick , I know you're being sarcastic . So am I whatever

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