Satoshi Kanazawa can get back to his other day jobs because Psychology Today has fired him and his blog ‘The Scientific Fundamentalist: a hard look at truths about human nature.’
One would think that a Japanese evolutionary scientist with a strong media following would know better than to offend black women. Lately, coming down hard on black women hasn't worked out so well for media guys.
October 2010, AOL writer Jawn Murray tweeted that he was tired of protests from nappy headed, angry black women over Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” movie. Despite emails and protests, Murray responded with "so what and get a perm" on his Twitter page. AOL issued a statement, Murray apologized and he held onto his writing job at AOL's Black Voices for a few more months.
Murray signed off in April and blogged about the end of the road, or the end of his job at AOL's Black voices. So long good riddance, bud. Even though he's not blogging on AOL anymore, Murray's legacy for promoting European standards of beauty in African American women, and upon himself, remains. Imus, a popular but old stringy-haired white guy lost his MSNBC AM talk show to the news program " Morning Joe" after he called the Rutgers women basketball team a group of nappy headed hoes. Imus's legacy is pretty much the same. He's that guy who got fired for insulting black women.
And now Satoshi Kanazawa's lost his blog and his profile page has been deleted from Psychology Today's website. His article and unqualified research on unattractive black women sent off a fury of protests online. 75,000 people blew up Psychology Today via email, Twitter and Facebook. Some even rang Psychology Today's telephones off the hook.
When all was said and done, Psychology Today sent an email to ColorofChange.org and informed the largest online African American political organization that Kanazawa's work won't appear on their site any longer. Psychology Today even said they've instituted new rules to prevent inflammatory content in the future.
People who hadn't heard of Kanazawa were sharing the text in question, their hurt, their ire and disbelief that Psychology Today endorsed the piece. They demanded Kanazawa be fired. Students at Kanazawa's other day job, London School of Economics, have also called for Kanazawa's resignation.
It's not just American Black women who were put off by the piece, every segment of the globe's population was annoyed: white men, black men, white women, black women, academics, Asians, Indians, writers, babysitters, the mail man and mail lady. People who surf the web and browse Facebook for random stuff did not like it and this time could not dismiss it.
Kanazawa has been offensive before. He's blogged that criminals look different from non criminals (OJ Simpson, according to Kanazawa looks like a criminal.”) He had an epiphany when he blogged that all women are essentially prostitutes. In the past, offended readers emailed Kanazawa rather than his editors.
Kanazawa’s blogs, for as long as Psychology Today has published them (a little over five years now) have always been controversial, racist, sexist, and unfounded. Most of his blogs are hypotheses on human nature (or why men and women do the the things that they do). Readers are drawn into Kanazawa's ideologies because his notions offer one explanation for human behavior in our contemporary culture and its current setting.
As it stands, contemporary culture is obsessed with beauty and cosmetic surgery has proven itself recession proof. Celebrity lifestyles generally support many of Kanazawa's theses and much of Kanazawa's audience are celebrity and people watchers.
Kanazawa wrote about beauty, women, motherhood, men, and dating. All of which were big hits with contemporary online readers.
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#1 So what is the point of your
So what is the point of your article? You believe in censorship of views that go against fashionable ideologies? Or anybody who is disapproved of by 'black women' should be banned for life? Oh I get it, you believe in free speech 'but'...
#2 We don't mind HIS disappoval of most of anything.
We mind his SPEAKING for the masses.....
#3 Free speech...my behind. Why
Free speech...my behind. Why did he deliberately leave out the portion of the study that showed that there was no difference in attractiveness across racial groups. He did that because he felt a certain way and he wanted to shove it up black women's behinds. Sorry...Don't feel sorry for him LOL.
#4 Political Correctness is a Religion
Humanists, Progressives, etc. worship at the alter of equality and political correctness. As black women are an OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED PROTECTED CLASS saying anything that might offend them (no matter how true) is blasphemy.
These people pretend to be interested in 'science', but really they're just Village Atheists who don't understand physics better than Fundie twits understand the Bible.
#5 Seriously, You need to speak
Seriously,
You need to speak for your self Vichy should someone say all non blacks are rapist and their women hoes in a research and I bet you too would be quick to defend them. Now if you were a black women you would know that were tire of bs generalization and if some find us unattractive including black men than oh well but don't say the whole world because we can show you many of men in all racist who pay us compliments every day and that the truth. No one race is better nor perfect so get it straight
#6 Fred the Hypocrite
Fred, don't be such a hypocrite! If Nagasaki or whatever his name is wrote a "scientific" article on caucasian men being unsatisfying in bed due to small "equipment" there would be hundreds of posts from people similar to you complaining about being the most discriminated group of all time. All groups of people have a right to dignity and respect which is more important than Sushi's right to insult a group of people he doesn't know.
#7 Offensive or not, It's true
Maybe ignoring these sentiments is doing more damage than actually talking about them. I happen to agree, and I would think that black women might want to have this examined, as their social status, average pay, and overall happiness is directly related to how they are perceived in the society they live in. It's no big deal that all the black girls on beauty magazine have airbrushed cream colored skin and strait hair, but if someone actually points it out, its suddenly too offensive to talk about.
#8 black has always been beautiful
You are free to agree if you wish. If I were to look at you I would most definitely say that you are also unattractive. I can tell by your hatefulness that you are no 'Brad Pitt..' Why do black women have the lowest suicide rates? Why do black women have one of the highest levels of spirituality? You need to look at markers which truly matter and as the bible describes Satan as beautiful, the beauty list is not one that I, as a black women, wish to top!
#9 Yepitrueyouareugly
Yep its true you are unattractive so instead of posting on here look in the mirror and try not to break it. Now if you believe my statement than your one rich dumbazz
#10 child please
i am beautiful black woman. i was furious when i saw this but after i looked at the person who wrote the article i just cracked with laughter, it just took all the anger out of me. if black women really where unattractive would some you spend hours in the sun trying to look darker? would you get breast implants? would you get lip injections? if other races were perfect then they would be no need for the majority of them to go through the trouble of enhances what was given to them naturally?
#11 child please
i am beautiful black woman. i was furious when i saw this but after i looked at the person who wrote the article i just cracked with laughter, it just took all the anger out of me. if black women really where unattractive would some you spend hours in the sun trying to look darker? would you get breast implants? would you get lip injections? if other races were perfect then they would be no need for the majority of them to go through the trouble of enhances what was given to them naturally?
#12 wrong to be me.
Can you imagine being born healthy and breathing and told that because you are brown skinned with kinky hair you deserve to be treated worse? I didn't ask to be born. I have been told all my life that my skin color is all "wrong." Just because I breathe. I'm all wrong? My hair is all wrong. I have 2 eyes, a nose a mouth, ears, 2 legs, a good mind, compassion, love, heart, but I'm just the wrong color... my grandmother was not allowed to sit on a bus in the front because she had brown skin. Her grandmother was whipped and beaten because she had brown skin.
#13 Free Speech AND Costly Consequences
No Fred, I don't believe in "free speech, but...," I believe in "free speech and..." This man was not censored. Psychology Today, as a reputable resource, simply withdrew his privileges (not rights) to publish unfounded and inflammatory "research." This man is free to use whatever other forums he chooses to get his message across. So yes, Speech is Free legally but one must also recognize that the real life Consequences of it can be quite Costly. He may wish to continue to ruin his own professional reputation, but I applaud Psychology Today for not allowing him to ruin their scientific credibility.
#14 Fred you're an idiot.
If this was about freedom of speech, rather than diplomacy and courteous regard, there'd be no issue. Be that as it may, there is no surprise that you wouldn't recognize that, dear.
#15 One for Free Speech...
The problem with Kanazawa isn't about free speech, it's about publishing "scientific-based information" and presenting it as qualitative, academic evidence. Free speech doesn't cover libel or slander. And I'm sure Psychology Today is not interested in their bloggers being pundits.
#16 Well since he was talking
Well since he was talking about other races and what he felt were their imperfections, it would be pretty funny if someone wrote an article about asian men and small penis size in relation to ethnicity:) lol
#17 No need for false prophet lmaooooooooo
Well I dont think he was fired because of his disrespectful and misleading so call poll. I think they were waiting for his crazy azz to slip up and he failed big time. Good riddance to a man who claims to use science as his source for spewing BS.
#18 True?
If this is true then why are non-black women (as they have for centuries) literally killing themselves to look like us. Tanning, Lip Injections (before that it was thick lip liner and glossy lipstick), Butt Injections (before that it was pads and bustles), Breast Impants, perms, etc. Yes, there are some people in mainstream America who expressly deject "black beauty" while at the same time making "slight improvements" that are the cornerstone of African aesthetics. And, there are some black women who play into this and have longed for thinner noses, smaller waists, lighter skin, and straighter hair. However, those of us within the black community and in the billion dollar black beauty products market have noticed that more black women are increasingly not just accepting of but totally embracing the natural features that make them black (ie, improved quality and selection of make-up and skin care products, as well as natural haircare products). And, on a personal note, I for one love my milk chocolate skin, my size 8 hips and thighs, my 36D boobs, and my thick black curly locks...and I haven't had a single guy (black, white, or other ever say otherwise). And word to the wise, happiness has nothing to do with how society perceives you, it's about how you perceive yourself. Otherwise, you wouldn't have these "beloved size zero stick figures" slitting their wrists and ODing all the time...but thanks for your theories, I'm sure someone will find them beneficial.
#19 Haha trying to look like you?
Ya its just too bad your black boyfriends love those "beloved size zero platinum blondes".
#20 Speak for yourself
Ha Ha speak for yourself because that some and not all and stick to the subject folks were suppose to be discussing the fact that this moron unfortunately labeled as a professional and a teacher at that and I can truly say his students proved their more intelligent then him by telling his azz to take the high road and get lost.
#21 You can believe that the size
You can believe that the size zero stick figure is only good for thing and one thing only. That's why the black man is with her for what she does to him (think lollipop) not what he does to her.
#22 white women trying to look black?
I am white and I have naturally full lips, it does not make me look black. And white women who do lip injections have no goal to look like black women, they want to look like white women with fuller lips - that's all.
About the main subject - this guy's "scientific" researches are just a joke.
I am not one of those people who say EVERYBODY is equally beautiful. Because... well that's not true. But there are beautiful people in every race in every part of the world. As well as there are unattractive people...
#23 Shoot let my job give me the
Shoot let my job give me the amount of money this moron used to make up a BS poll and I'll show you the truth no one has a stocks or bond on beauty. Its is a natural thing it is how one carry theirselves, it is how a individual view another individual, no matter how many times the world labels a woman/man beautiful or handsome it comes down to a individual decision. I as black woman will not let this moron or some people in society define my inner/outter beauty this is why this world is so fudged up, women selling themselves to the higher bidder( watch realtiy tv) and they young women and men are truly lost.
#24 what the heck
Ok I was trying to correct my typos and got label as spam okkkkkkkkkkkkkk
#25 asf7777@hotmail.com
Thanks for clarifying dingus.
#26 Actually...
The point, as I see it is whether or not we should have a real discussion about this topic. I personally believe that, from the arguments, we should/need to address this subject.
#27 Stop the foolishness
This whole situation is ridiculos he was stupid to even do that I've seen his picture and I can say he aint even attractive at all he should keep that to himself, Secondly I believe in all races there are beautiful people and there are not beautiful people, but at the end of the day we all are human beings. This needs to stop, people need to stop evaluating everyone and just live there life, and that's real talk, that why this world is the way it is people need to start living there lives and stop evaluating
#28 Satoshi kanazawa
Mr. Kanazawa should be permitted one blog post about the editors of PT being in denial.
#29 Why do you think black men
Why do you think black men like white women so much?
#30 reply to why black men date white women
honestly I really dont care why black men date white women and Im a black women saying this, To me if you are attracted to white women then thats fine to me but if your only dating white women because you feel they are submissive then thats crazy cause I know some white women who will go off on any man in a second if he steps out of line, I know me personally I am attracted to white men but I wouldnt stop dating other races because my attraction is to white men. Again at the end of the day we are all people and that should be it