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Trigger WarningIs it really true that over 50% of women have rape fantasies?
My teacher brought it up in psych class. I'm genuinely concerned I tried looking it because I'm highly concerned. Are there other factors. Someone explain and help
Oh my GOD this is perfect. In one of my radfem books, I saw the stat that men think women talk more than we actually do and interrupt more than we actually do.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-interrupting-women
Also, in a group setting, men think that there are more women than there actually are. I'm not articulating it well, but I was shocked and irritated. It was some study where they asked men how many women were in a group and the men said "half" when there was way less than half. Men perceive women as taking up much more space than we actually do.
While the Geena Davis Institute has been ideologically captured, their research is still spot on about this.
They found people perceive media that has 1 out of 6 characters being female is equal representation in their minds (ie 50/50). IIRC they also perceived a TV show or movie with equal male/female ratio to be female-dominated.
Even the Disney Princess movies that are supposed to be female dominated, still had a majority of dialogue by male characters. Even Frozen, with two female leads, still had 55% of the dialogue spoken by male characters…
I wrote an email to the Geena Davis Institute about this piece of research. I asked if they could give me the details of the citation (I was interested in the details of their methodology and results) ... but they never replied. I've still never found anything published on their study beyond the one sentence claim.
If anyone does have it I'd be interested to look into it.
I’m not sure I’ve found the right piece of research, but the initial few bodies of work were studied by Dr Stacey Smith and only sponsored by the Institute:
https://seejane.org/wp-content/uploads/GDIGM_Gender_Stereotypes.pdf
Oh that's disappointing
Yes!! That was it! Thank you, I couldn't remember the exact example