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so-treu:

this is an article. this is an article that exists. and this is where you can go to tell these people how full of racist bullshit they are.

that article was appallingly disgusting on so many levels

• equating a higher level of testosterone with unattractiveness- first of all, why is more testosterone magically a bad thing? Are women automatically less attractive because they don’t have a certain amount of estrogen, which is supposed to give those “soft feminine features”. Society needs to stop putting physical/biological features on the gender binary, especially for the purpose of lourding one over the other 
• higher BMIs: If the BMI within itself has been proven to be junk science and not a real indication of anything, then why bother including it in this study? What does a BMI number really show? Jack shit. So to use it to compare the physical attractiveness of the races means even less 
• “Africans having more mutations amongst them, which decreases attractiveness over time”- Oh really now? That’s just a loaded statement within itself. It doesn’t acknowledge how those mutations came into being: inter-tribal mating, cross-continental mating, colonization, slavery, ect. So basically, you’re blaming a race’s physical unattractiveness on facts they did and didn’t have control over. 

I just can’t sometimes. I mean really, why bother to conduct studies like this in the first place. How does this help improve understanding of different cultures? How does this help anything at all?

SMDH!! 

Something to think about every time someone brings up ” attractive” as a challenge to Women of Color

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I feel horrible even reblogging this b/c of the harmful nature of the words. But this psychologist spends his entire analysis looking at reasons why individuals might exhibit differences in perceived attractiveness across races, while only examining potential differences in the target of those perceptions - without once even acknowledging how the socialization of the perceiver is a huge factor here. He is clearly making the assumption that the perceptions of attractiveness are an objective measure of true underlying inter-racial differences. He completely fails to acknowledge that the interviewers for the study of adolescent health simply rated the participants on a scale of 1-5. The differences in attractiveness ratings then are very much tied up in how the interviewers themselves were socialized in a system that values certain races in different ways. How does he not even take into account who the interviewers were and the messages they were socialized in around beauty?

Evolutionary Psych has some smart folks, and then they have a lot of folks like Satoshi Kanazawa who simply look for “just so” stories to fit their racist view points around IQ, behavior, looks, etc… and completely ignore the dynamic transaction between the biological beings we are and the socially constructed world we shape and are shaped by. This is just gross. Our profession really needs to stand up and make a statement not just about those like Kanazawa, but also about Psychology Today for offering a forum for such shoddy pseudo science simply to increase page views and ad revenue. Psychology Today has the potential to offer information and knowledge from our profession to the masses, but instead it is what it is. I would love to see APA or APS formally distance themselves from the “content” coming out of Psychology Today and make clear to the public that it in no way is a good representation of the evidence-based practice and research our profession is creating. 

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