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

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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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