Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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And I started beating my college boyfriend at chess, every time. He deeply resented it but I didn't realize it because he was pretty good at pretending otherwise. I was just happy. Right up until the day I won a match and he threw the board & pieces off the table so violently it felt like a threat

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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There's a paper in psychology this makes me think of: "Penalties for success: reactions to women who succeed at male gender-typed tasks"

Even when women prove themselves competent at tasks, there is "bias in evaluative judgments."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/151614

Penalties for success: reactions to women who succeed at male gender-typed tasks - PubMed

A total of 242 subjects participated in 3 experimental studies investigating reactions to a woman's success in a male gender-typed job. Results strongly supported the authors' hypotheses, indicating that (a) when women are acknowledged to have been successful, they are less liked and more personally …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · PubMed

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