Allport’s antipathy model missed how benevolence maintains subordinate groups’ lower status

Evidence

To do so, researchers had to begin to consider the role that benevolent beliefs play in maintaining women’s lower status (Jackman, ch. 6 this volume). Because Allport overlooked the power of benevolence to reinforce the status quo, it is fair to say that he was not “supported” because he did not think beyond hostile prejudice, or consider how subordinates might be wooed into supporting their own oppression. It is even possible that these oversights contributed to his blind spot with respect to sex discrimination, and thus, to his dismissal of gender conflict. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 773

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the vault’s Allport reassessment thread — challenges the antipathy-as-prejudice core claim with a benevolent-prejudice mechanism.
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice/dress moral-panic threads in that benevolent paternalism, like dress codes, operates as a status-maintaining mechanism rather than mere hostility.
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that subordinates are wooed into supporting their own oppression via positive regard, with antipathy theory structurally blind to it, is a genuinely dense, near-paradigm-shifting critique of the whole Allportian frame.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 773