Authoritarians and social dominators endorse different rape myths

Evidence

Even when the two scales correlated similarly, you will recall, with the Rape Myth measure, they did so for somewhat different reasons. High RWAs most bought into myths that condemned rape victims on moral grounds: “When women go around braless or wearing short skirts and tight tops, they are just asking for trouble” and “If a girl engages in necking or petting and she lets things get out of hand, it is her own fault if her partner forces sex on her.” But high SDOs blamed rape victims more for letting themselves fall into the power of the attacker: “A woman who goes to the home or apartment of a man on their first date implies that she is willing to have sex” and “Women who get raped while hitchhiking get what they deserve.” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 998

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The moral-condemnation vs. power-dynamics split in victim-blaming could seed a character study: two villains who arrive at the same harmful belief through utterly different psychologies.
• SEED: Article angle: distinguishing the two psychological routes into victim-blaming beliefs, useful for understanding political discourse around sexual assault.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 998