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How personality predicts sex object projection + UK offices urged to curb sports talk

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Firms urged to crack down on office football chat (Jack the Lad community)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999

INTRO: Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned. Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said ... "A lot of women, in particular, feel left out," she told the BBC's Today programme. "They don't follow those sports and they don't like either being forced to talk about them or not being included."

[...] Ms Francke is concerned that discussing football and, for example, the merits of video assistant refereeing (VAR) can disproportionately exclude women and divide offices. "It's a gateway to more laddish behaviour and - if it just goes unchecked - it's a signal of a more laddish culture," she said "It's very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend."

[...] But sports journalist Jacqui Oatley thinks cracking down on sports chatter would be a "terrible idea". ... Office manager Debra Smyth worries that other topics such as Love Island, EastEnders and Game of Thrones could also be censored if sport chatter is banned. ... "Where would it end? Banning people with children talking about them so as not to alienate people without children. Certainly not!"

Recruiter Peter Ferguson said: "I have seen managers and staff build a more direct bond over a shared love of sport which has excluded those who don't share that interest. The answer is not to ban the conversation, it is to ensure managers and staff are trained to understand that those shared interests should not get in the way of management decisions or working collaboratively." (MORE - details)



How personality predicts seeing others as sex objects (Psychopathiosexual community)
https://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/202...thers.html

RELEASE: Several personality traits related to psychopathy — especially being openly antagonistic — predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory University. The journal “Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment” published the study, which the authors believe is the first to identify key personality correlates of interpersonal sexual objectification.

The #MeToo movement has raised awareness of the ongoing problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault, notes Thomas Costello, a PhD candidate in psychology at Emory and first author of the study. Much less is known, he says, about those likely to think of someone as little more than their sexual parts. “Understanding the personality traits associated with sexual objectification allows us to identify those at risk of having this attitude and to potentially design an intervention for them,” Costello says. “This is important because sexual objectification can be a precursor to sexual harassment and sexual violence.”

Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with a constellation of characteristics, such as boldness, impulsivity, narcissism, cold-heartedness, disinhibition and meanness. Most people who have some personality traits associated with psychopathy do not fulfill the criteria for full-blown psychopathy, explains Emory psychology professor Scott Lilienfeld, senior author of the paper and an expert on personality disorders. These so-called ‘dark’ personality traits occur on a continuum, like height and weight or blood pressure,” he explains. “Many people have at least some of these traits to some degree, and other people may not have any of them to a high degree.”

For the current study, the researchers wanted to test whether traits underlying psychopathy — which is associated with sexual aggression, harassment and violence — could provide a framework for understanding and statistically predicting attitudes of sexual objectification among the general population. The study used a self-reporting survey that included questions about attitudes, as well as behaviors, regarding sexual objectification and measurements of psychopathy-related personality traits. The researchers collected data from 800 U.S. community members drawn from Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform.

An analysis of the data showed that meanness, or being antagonistic towards others, was the strongest predictor for attitudes of sexual objectification, followed closely by disinhibition. Cold-heartedness and boldness were also predictors, but the effect sizes were smaller. “We were surprised that cold-heartedness — or being a callous, detached person — was not as good a predictor as meanness, or being openly malicious,” Lilienfeld says.

The survey participants included both men and women. As expected, more men than women scored higher on the sexual objectification scale. But psychopathic traits were even better predictors of attitudes of sexual objectification in the female respondents. “It may be that social norms are much stronger against women sexually objectifying others, so this attitude would be less likely to be expressed, except among women with higher degrees of these dark personality traits,” Costello says.

He hopes that the #MeToo movement may also increase societal pressure against men perceiving others as sex objects. “The ongoing cultural conversation and growing awareness of the problem of sexual objectification is a great opportunity for research into why it occurs,” he says. Co-authors of the study include Emory graduates Brett Murphy (now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Ashley Watts (now a post-doc at the University of Missouri at Columbia).
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Syne Offline
Sod off. I'm not a sports fan either, but I don't whine about not feeling included....mostly because I don't think supporting my feelings is the job of an employer.

This is how women can be a liability for an employer.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
Any job interview I’ve had, whether it be as new applicant or for promotion, never included sports knowledge as job criteria. The closest thing I saw was the time a Union worker was given a management job because he was a fishing buddy with a particular manager of a department. However this was a calculated move, advance a terrible field employee to management just to fire him, it beat fighting the union to have him dismissed. Be careful what you wish for.
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I think we need a list of permitted subjects to discuss when women are around.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
(Jan 30, 2020 05:11 PM)confused2 Wrote: I think we need a list of permitted subjects to discuss when women are around.

To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what women talk about. How they know so much about what men talk about , I haven't a clue. Perhaps la femme thinks were talking about her or for some reason its paramount to know exactly what men talk about. 

If I were to type here the things I think women talk about then I'll probably piss someone off and be labelled whatever the flavour of the month is. As a basketball referee of 35 years I've seen lots of female athletes, most before they either graduate high school or college. In all those years, rarely have I talked sport with a female athlete. I don't hear them talking sports either. I figure they must at least talk about their team(s) but I can't say for sure. Even when I coached girl's teams I did not talk sports with them, other then what I expected from them during games/practices. No strategy, no analysis, just next to nothing sportswise.

I understand there's a different dynamic waiting in the wings for women. Motherhood comes to mind. It's not something me as a guy is ever going to experience. Easier on the body to be a father for sure. Having children might actually be the coup de grace for many a female sports career. Of course there are exceptions, my one daughter being one. She can talk babies and sports. 

So if you're upset that men talk sports at the water cooler then I'm f**king sorry. However I don't complain about women talking female issues as I understand the situation. BION most of us appreciate the sacrifices of time and body made for the marvel of childbirth.
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confused2 Offline
I think we might be looking at an example of chick code here.
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Leigha Offline
This is more insulting to women, than helpful. As if we are all made out of glass, oh be careful ...don’t talk about sports. What? This is supposed to make women feel empowered and equal? Ugh.
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