Benevolent prejudice explains why subordinates collaborate in their own subordination.

Evidence

Following the Allportian tradition, seminal gender prejudice research centered on antipathy toward women’s civil rights and negative female stereotypes. Although this approach has been productive, it has not been able to account for the positive attitudes and beliefs that people possess about women, or why women themselves might unwittingly perpetuate gender hegemony. … 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…, 772

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing work on sacrifice as a stabilizer of stratified societies — benevolence-as-consent parallels sacrifice-as-consent in maintaining hierarchy. — connects to: Subordinates’ positive self-stereotypes can reinforce the status quo. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2904; The distinctive new prejudice is interpreting subordinate demands as illegitimate pushiness — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3415; Subordinate classes’ belief in their incapacity helps sustain their subordination. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 498
• DEFINE: Introduces the key framing that prejudice-as-antipathy is too narrow and benevolence is a parallel mechanism.