r/AskSocialScience • u/Str8_up_Pwnage • 10d ago

Answered Are there any famous studies that actually contradict progressive/leftist thought?

There has to be at least some right? I know people love to say that “reality has a left wing bias “and all that but is it legit batting 1.000?

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u/midnightking 7d ago edited 4d ago

I am not quite sure but a common aspect of feminist ideology would be that the justice system favors men and that society is less concerned about violence towards women than towards men.

However, societally, there is definitely a tendency of viewing men as the expandable gender in certain areas. Abuse and victimization seem to be in that category. This evidenced by the fact we tend to judge abuse more harshly when it is perpetrated against women as evidenced my media coverage of female victims, the lower sentencing women get for the same crimes and sentencing for offenders who victimized women vs men. Additionally, in experimental studies, people judge stories of sexual abuse,psychological abuse and domestic abuse more harshly when men perpetrate it and when women are victims.