needabiggerhammer t1_ja8sg0k wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:12 PM

Reply to comment by Ratnix in A transgender woman will compete in a Puerto Rico pageant for the first time by BecuzMDsaid

Pretty much. Going to be a shit show.

Would be more interesting if the judges didn't know she was trans. Seeing it is a beauty contest I imagine part of the subjective scoring will be based on an unconscious "can I breed with her" factor (actually make babies, not just practice) and could unintentionally bias males judges regardless of their conscious openness to the concept.

Tangent, but that would be a fun research project. Does telling a male a woman is sterilized impact their perceived attractiveness? How about trans instead? How do the impacts compare?

Whackjob-KSP t1_jaa1kur wrote on February 27, 2023 at 11:00 PM

I think it would say more about the person answering those questions than the subjects at hand.

needabiggerhammer t1_jaaumm2 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:29 AM

How so?

It would be finding out how much does perceived fertility impacts what is considered attractive (already a subjective measure that changes based on culture and history). They whole point would to be if there is, and how much, a subconscious weighting based on that.

Similar studies have been done on equally frivolous (in the context that someone being fertile or not does not change they worth or value as a person) variables and generally they have interesting results.

Not really related to the subject of the thread, hence the prefix of "tangent", except the whole thing is around a beauty pageant where we already reduce women to the role of object and score them on it.