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rap22108.jpgTipper Gore must be crapping herself with glee over the results of a new study claiming rap music activates pre-existing sexism. In the study, conducted by social psychologists at North Carolina State, "college students were randomly assigned to one of three groups. In the control group, students' levels of sexism were measured, but they did not listen to any music. A second group required students to listen to non-sexist rap music, while a third listened to a rap song with explicitly sexist language. Males were more sexist in all three groups. However, [researchers] found that sexist attitudes among respondents also increased after exposure to rap containing no sexist lyrics." [UPI]

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