How privilege affects reactions to men’s femininity
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s femininity is met with condemnation, but those with more privilege may have more leeway than those with less. Additionally, cultural attitudes may be evolving to be less homonegative, which may alter the reception of queer men’s femininity. From interviews with 30 young adult men in a US Southwestern city, we found evidence for compensatory masculinity privilege – allowing femininity based on other successful enactments of masculinity – and ‘gay allowance’ – a form of benevolent prejudice that allowed femininity based on conforming to gay stereotypes. Our results provide empirical evidence for the subjugation of gay masculinity under hegemonic masculinity, as well as the exceptions made for gender-typical men under hybrid masculinity. We illuminate how explicit homonegativity may be decreasing, but femmephobia – the denigration of femininity – is still persistent and prevalent.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it