Authoritarianism predicts hostile backlash against feminists.

Evidence

Dianne Stober and Pauline Clance (personal communication, 1995) found that RWA scores correlated . with a balanced twenty-item scale measuring hostile attitudes toward and a backlash against feminists (for example, “Feminism contributes to the breakdown of family values in this country”). The subjects were 158 adults waiting for possible jury duty in a Georgia city. I found a correlation of . among 184 Manitoba students in October 1995. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the anti-feminist backlash component of the vault’s authoritarianism literature (Melinda Cooper’s family/anti-feminism threads). — connects to: The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie intensified antifeminism in reaction to Enlightenment license and progressive threats. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 255
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 471