Prejudice flourishes even without overt antipathy toward its targets

Evidence

Perhaps a victim of his time, he overlooked, as Rudman describes it, the “ordinariness of gender prejudice.” Only two pages of his book (pp. 33– 4) were dedicated to an analysis of sexism. … The consequence of this challenge to conceptions of the nature of prejudice is profound, suggesting that prejudice comes in qualitatively different forms, such as an ostensibly benevolent paternalism that disadvantages groups without apparent antipathy, that Allport and, for many years, the rest of the field, simply missed. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 139

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that warm, ostensibly kind treatment can structurally disadvantage a group — benevolent paternalism as prejudice — resists easy summary and repays sitting with.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the paternalism dynamics in my sacrifice piece — control disguised as care — and to the immodesty piece’s love-as-discipline threads.
• XREF: connects to: Most out-groups elicit mixed prejudice, not pure antipathy — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 123