Perceived vulnerability to coercion predicts fear specifically of out-group men, not other targets.

Evidence

In an extension of these findings, Navarrete, McDonald, Molina, and Sidanius (2010) found that a woman’s perceived vulnerability to sexual coercion is more strongly related to fear of out-group men than any other combination of race and gender (i.e., in-group men, out-group women, in-group women). The results of these studies support our contention that women’s prejudice serves specific goals, namely, the protection of women’s reproductive choice via increased fear toward and avoidance of out-group men when the threat to reproductive choice is greatest. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1264

Categorization

• XREF: The selectivity — out-group men but not out-group women or in-group men — is a crisp falsifiable boundary condition that any disposition-based account of prejudice must fail to explain; strengthens a functionalist-mechanism reading of both antisemitism and Islamophobia threads. — connects to: Dominance psychology is older than prestige and runs on fear-based coercion — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 396
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1264