Social Psychology Assignment: Women's Experiments on Male Entitlement

This social psychology report explores how women are conducting social experiments to challenge male entitlement, drawing from the student's personal experiences and observations. The paper begins with a feminist perspective, highlighting the impact of societal stereotypes and the need for women to challenge existing norms. The author shares two real-life examples of how she challenged societal expectations, including responding to online criticism and adopting masculine behaviors in public spaces. The analysis delves into the cognitive shifts and emotional responses resulting from these experiments, emphasizing the discomfort men experience when women assert themselves. The report also discusses the importance of women's self-confidence and the need for them to initiate change. The paper concludes with a call for women to transform their experiences into wisdom and pursue their dreams. The assignment also references relevant literature on feminism, social psychology, and gender roles, providing a comprehensive analysis of the topic.

Running head: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Topic- Women are creating a flurry of social experiments to call out male entitlement
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Abstract
“I just want everything that I deserve because I have dealt with everything that I didn’t
deserve”
Let us start with the famous quotation of feminism that clearly depicts the stand
of women in the society. Fear and societal stereotype should not let women fear nor
should it prevent them from doing what they think is right (Pateman & Grosz, 2013).
Fighting for women’s dignity and rights is not equivalent to hating men in general.
Challenging men’s behavior has lead feminists too far and the impact is stretching from
the internet to the high streets. Each time a woman stands up for herself she stands up
for the whole women community. If women want to change the male stereotype of the
society then the change should start from them only and should not be only world
fallacy. Male entitlement has impacted women so badly that they have started coining
male stereotyped terms like ‘manspreading’ and are considering social
experimentations to have a knowledge of what will happen if women stop being the way
they are and start acting like males, well better to say like men (Takepart, 2019). In this
essay I have shared two of my real-life experiences of how I challenged the existing
societal norms and how have they affected and changed my cognitive thinking and
resonance.
Keywords: feminism, world fallacy, male stereotype, online criticism, body shamming,
judgmental.
Actually, men cannot withstand a woman praising herself or showing confidence
in her own decision. I understood this fact in recent times when I experienced it from

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real life viewpoint. Today’s youths have been victims of social abuse at some point of
their life and I am no exception. Stranger men at times like our photos and videos and
even comment on them without actually knowing us. They will compliment your looks
and your beauty anonymously. If you reject their compliment then you are an ‘attention
seeker’ and if not then you are ‘vain’ (Parker, 2014). So, it is hard to find way round and
we just really cannot win either way. This is men standard and women will be judged no
matter what. I am a social media active person and have faced criticism a number of
times and to tell the truth I did not deserve such ill-comments in any respect. Recently I
thought of flipping the table and responded to the compliment provided by the stranger.
I affirmatively remarked to his comment of ‘you look beautiful and your eyes are
gorgeous’ as ‘thank you very much and yes I know it that I am beautiful.’ There was a
pause and as I thought the stranger was in confusion and his judgmental nature was in
utter silence, silenced by my self-confidence and self-complimenting attitude. In the next
minute I found that the remark was withdrawn from my account and I actually feel good
from within. That day I understood that men become uncomfortable when a woman
praises herself and shows her level of awesomeness (Eagly & Riger, 2014).
One of the male masculine natures is not to step aside whatever be the situation.
Stepping aside is like hurting male ego. On the other hand, women are what is called
the epitome of adjustments and sacrifices. In crowded streets and roads women are
reluctant to give way to other pedestrians and they apologize if someone is
unintentionally hurt in the way (McDougall, 2015). Men do not mind body shaming
women in the way of walk and least bothered in stepping aside to make way for women.
I decided to adopt the masculine approach of walking, having no respect for other

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pedestrians. I was surprised to notice that the handful of women who actually bumped
into me apologized to me instead and men do not give a look and just moved out of the
way. It is the women who are body shamed and they utter the word ‘sorry’ instead of
them who are responsible for the job. That is, the victims themselves are apologizing for
something they are not accountable for. That day I realized that if men are not sorry for
their deeds then why we women will feel sorry for the things we have not done.
Women’s safety should be more vital than men’s feelings and ego (McDougall, 2015).
What I can say is that women should learn how to turn their wounds into wisdom
and should rely on their own confidence in achieving what they desire. No stereotype
could stop them from chasing their dream if they dare to dream. We ourselves need to
take the first lead of change and should step-up as women, not mere human beings.
This will create the ultimate difference.

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References
Eagly, A. H., & Riger, S. (2014). Feminism and psychology: Critiques of methods and
epistemology. American Psychologist, 69(7), 685.Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25046701
McDougall, W. (2015). An introduction to social psychology. Psychology Press.
Retrieved from
https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mcdougall/socialpsych.pdf
Parker, I. (2014). Discourse dynamics (psychology revivals): Critical analysis for social
and individual psychology. Routledge. Retrieved from
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134549870
Pateman, C., & Grosz, E. (2013). Feminist challenges: Social and political theory.
Routledge. Retrieved from
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781136195600
To Call Out Male Entitlement, Women Are Creating a Flurry of Social Experiments.
(2019). Retrieved from
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/01/12/women-are-creating-social-experiments-call-
out-sexism