Apparently some polls are more equal than others:
TalkingDog (8,104 posts)
Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/26/study_everyone_hates_environmentalists_and_feminists_partner/
That’s the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists.
Participants held strongly negative stereotypes about such activists, and those feelings reduced their willingness “to adopt the behaviors that these activities promoted,†reports a research team led by University of Toronto psychologist Nadia Bashir. This surprisingly cruel caricaturing, the researchers conclude, plays “a key role in creating resistance to social change.â€
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LWolf (37,683 posts)
1. No.
The use of the term "everyone" automatically disqualifies the statement.
I love environmentalists and feminists. I can, in some part, fit those categories myself, and I don't hate myself.
bettyellen (21,547 posts)
2. "pedantic little screeds" about preserving our earth and supporting civil rights got you down?
Really, tell us more about how much you dislike hearing about progressive issues.
Fumesucker (33,508 posts)
5. Oddly enough, religion is still popular in the USA despite thousands of years of pedantic screeds
Screeds belittling others (never oneself) for not behaving the way you think they ought to.
Squinch (4,356 posts)
7. "pedantic screed belittling people for not behaving and thinking exactly the way you think"
You mean those pedantic screeds about giving people control over their own bodies, equal pay, and a world that they can pass on to their grandchildren?
Gosh. I hope no one is bothering you too much with those pesky things. Cause then 200 people who use Mechanical Turk might not want to be friends.
People who want to breathe and have civil rights are so pedantic.
MH1 (13,122 posts)
15. "pedantic screeds"? More like tons of money spent to caricature those terms and turn people against
the caricature.
Kind of like what they've done to words like "liberal" and "socialism".
But I don't suppose you know anything about that.
It's so cute when they launch into pedantic little screeds to refute the allegation that they have nothing but pedantic little screeds.
99Forever (6,380 posts)
6. Seem...
... to have touched a nerve or two.
So defensive that they can't see what the point really is nor will they.
Curmudgeoness (11,411 posts)
9. You often can find whatever results you are looking for
by the way you frame a poll and the questions.
I suggest that if these same people were asked if they believe in paying less money to women who do the same job as a man, few would agree with that statement. I further suggest that if you were asked if you prefer clean water and air over rivers on fire from chemicals and smog, it would be overwhelmingly for clean water and air.
Stereotyping sucks, and a poll that encouraging stereotyping sucks.
I doubt she would say that about the Tea Party popularity poll.
LadyHawkAZ (4,349 posts)
11. Movements that are at cross purposes to the corporate status quo
somehow wind up being defined in the media by the stereotype of their extremists. I'm sure if we all thought about it long enough we could figure out why and how that happens.
Tell us again how all conservatives are greedy, warmongering, wife-enslaving racists.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023735810
