Racist “Psychology Today” article puts down black women, gets attention
A totally meaningless graphic used in Satoshi Kanazawa's "Psychology Today" article titled, "Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?"
Last week, Psychology Today published a piece by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa titled, “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?”
A completely unscientific answer to a stupid question no one has ever asked? Whatever stirs up controversy, right?
Shamefully attention-seeking title aside, the article itself argues that according to a set of data, black women (but not men) are “objectively” less attractive than their white, Asian, or Native American counterparts.
According to Kanazawa, this is because of increased testosterone and black women’s “more masculine features.”
The world is a scary place if this kind of crap can be considered “science,” no?
If this was another cheap attempt by Psychology Today to get people talking (the magazine’s motto has got to be “all press is good press,” right?), it worked.
Readers (rightfully) responded with outrage, and the article’s title was later changed to “Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” before being removed completely from the site.
Perhaps the craziest part of all this nonsense is that the so-called objective data set Kanazawa references in his article is anything but. Continue reading
“Psychology Today” pulls a “Maxim” move with its current cover
"Psychology Today" bears a striking resemblance to "Maxim" this month.
Your daily dose of grocery-checkout-line female objectification is brought to you by Psychology Today.
Wait, what?
While you’re probably used to magazines like Maxim visually assaulting you with half-naked models, you might not have expected the same breast-baring on the cover of PT.
Avid About-Face reader Patricia Greenwell sent us the image above and voiced her disappointment over the magazine featuring “a half decapitated woman” rocking an itty-bitty bikini.
“A magazine called Psychology Today should realize that images such as the one on their cover are psychologically harmful to women!” our reader wrote. Exactly.
Besides the ridiculous breasts/bikini/boxing glove trifecta, the magazine’s headline is pretty lame too: “The Battle Over Beauty: What Matters Most to Men — And to Women.” Continue reading