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Wednesday 18 May 2011

Satoshi Kanazawa Causes Firestorm After Claiming Black Women Are Less Attractive

Psychology Today blogger Satoshi Kanazawa sparked a firestorm with his latest posting entitled, "A Look at the Hard Truths About Human Nature." In it, the evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics argues that black women are less physically attractive than other women. The article was quickly removed from the site, but not before screenshots made their way onto BuzzFeed. Some excerpts when you continue...



 What accounts for the markedly lower average level of physical attractiveness among black women? Black women are on average much heavier than nonblack women. The mean body-mass index (BMI) at Wave III is 28.5 among black women and 26.1 among nonblack women. (Black and nonblack men do not differ in BMI: 27.0 vs. 26.9) However, this is not the reason black women are less physically attractive than nonblack women. Black women have lower average level of physical attractiveness net of BMI. Nor can the race difference in intelligence (and the positive association between intelligence and physical attractiveness) account for the race difference in physical attractiveness among women. Black women are still less physically attractive than nonblack women net of BMI and intelligence. Net of intelligence, black men are significantly more physically attractive than nonblack men.

The only thing I can think of that might potentially explain the lower average level of physical attractiveness among black women is testosterone. Africans on average have higher levels of testosterone than other races, and testosterone, being an androgen (male hormone), affects the physical attractiveness of men and women differently. Men with higher levels of testosterone have more masculine features and are therefore more physically attractive. In contrast, women with higher levels of testosterone also have more masculine features and are therefore less physically attractive. The race difference in the level of testosterone can therefore potentially explain why black women are less physically attractive than women of other races, while (net of intelligence) black men are more physically attractive than men of other races.
Kanazawa was met with widespread backlash. Jenée Desmond-Harris at The Root wrote, "The blog's presentation of the allegedly scientific findings had a decidedly informal tone, especially given the highly contentious conclusions. It struck us as so outrageous that we almost thought it was a hoax of some sort, and we double-checked the URL to make sure it didn't include 'The Onion.'"

Latoya Peterson at Racialicious opined: "Justifying racism using 'science' isn't new, by any means. Every few years, it appears that someone needs to provide a rationale for bigotry, so they publish some sort of madness and hope most of the readers suffer from scientific illiteracy. The problem is that even with a thorough debunking, people latch on to articles like this to confirm their own biases."

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15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anybody that believes this crap needs to hang themselves because these 'facts' have been disapproved a longtime ago. Its just the age old glorifying the black man and explaining why he excels in physical oriented things but not intellectual and bashing the black woman's features on her but praising those features on non-black women e.g kim kardashian

tayo said...

it is not surprising... not at all!!
having lived in an Asian country for more than ten years, it is sad to say that they prefer "white-looking" females for their ads than blacks and in terms of intelligence, whenever a black woman of African race comes forward as smart, then get thrown off and reject her on the basis of her skin color... so what can I say? racism still exists!!! just in pocket forms everywhere we are!!!

Nevertheless, I am not affected by that study, if it is not for the fact that our own continent failed to make us proud, who are they to conclude that Black women are less attractive or black men are more attractive? It is our duty to love ourselves no matter what other people say!!!

Thanks Linda for bringing it to our notice.

Ms. J said...

oponu

Anonymous said...

The blogger hasnt met me
*******eyes rolling**********
cant believe this crap in this day and age
SMH

as myself said...

what ever makes him sleep at night he can publish, we are less attractive yet all the white idiotic morons in my office are control my Nigerian prostitutes.oh

Anonymous said...

just imagine this man satoshi kanazawa,eeeeh!we r less attractive?then y is it that those ones he claims r attractive pumping there boobs n butts 2 look like that of a black woman if we r not attractive?satoshi do u know what?l live in ur country japan wt my family;my people una need 2 come n c how their men salivate anytime they c a black woman;n wen we ask them wetin now,they will say that we vr very shapely n attractive wt fine up n down.......lol,abeg black man enjoy ur natural thing wey we get na God give una joooo.imagine it is those ones that use everything artificial 2 look beautiful that this man is claiming 2 be attractive??No wonder in his country the women r 22222222222 cosmetic,infact u guys need 2 c satoshi,s country women,l wonder y he will say such a thing.rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccccccciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........;WE ROCK n WE PULL as black women.

Allegra said...

What an interesting article, considering the high percentage of women in particular from Japan who continually go under the knife just to look European or have more of the European features and we are the ones less attractive. He should look at what he is surrounded by and maybe, just maybe it would dawn on him that his people and their likes are the less attractive species (men and women).

Anonymous said...

IDIOTS! when our own continent has failed us. abeg, black people, GET THE FUCK OUT OF ASIA! everyone knows Asians are the most racist people on earth and they hate anything black. PLEASE! imagine a fool like this insulting us. i guess its everyone that is dying to live up to the white man's standards of attractiveness and anything OPPOSITE of that is seen as unattractive. i don't blame them. SILLY BEINGS. its no news that Asians always feel inferior to whites and always aspire to look like them. so who gives a FUUUUUCK?!

Anonymous said...

Well am not surprise considering the datum, that she strains to look black, her head is shaved off like a Nubian queen and her last name sounds African so who is deceiving who now?

NINA said...

Japanese ppl are very stupid..everyone thinks they can dump on black ppl bcos they have been downtrodden for so long, and bcos of racism...this ignoramus of a man is making statements based on his myopic speculations, and shld be instantly condemned...since when did discussing black women as being unattractive become research material...what contribution will that make to science or anything relevant to the society at large....
hey guys this man was dumped by a black woman, and has a personal vendetta and is using his office to get back at her!!! idiot!!

Anonymous said...

Satoshi Kanazawa ur FADA!

Anonymous said...

foolish idiot

Anonymous said...

omg like wat ru talkin bout dude get ur dumbass bac 2 japan cuz it seem like you dnt knw wat the heck ur talkin about... u stupin japanese always try be white when you guys can't even open ur eyes... you jus mad cuz no black girl want u nd ur ugly ass... like stfu cuz u just sound so stupid cuz u guys r really da ugliest aliens in dis world nd jus cuz u guys dnt love urself doesnt mean we dnt too but u cant blame us we da most beautiful people in dis fckin world even the picture u jus put can prove it bc u put da black gurl nd da white gurl but if u really open ur eyes u wuld see dat the black gurl look soooo much prettier than the white gurl (no offense non blacks)

Anonymous said...

lol he also wrote an article about how better looking people are smarter than other...that can be refuted easily... can we really trust this guy? i think not!...i dont know what planet he is living on but he needs to come join us all here on earth and see whats really going on...

Anonymous said...

Linda, try to post the picture of the Japanese orangutan who conducted that experiment. The man looks like 3-day old shit arranged by 4 area boys for Agege.

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