Researchers Find a Tenuous Link Between Dudes’ Preference for Big Boobs and Sexist Attitudes
LatestA British study about mens’ breast size preferences has yielded a pretty unremarkable insight. Actually, the most unremarkable insight possible — the highly subjective “medium” breast size category received the most survey votes (32.7 percent of them, to be precise). Before we cue a great eye roll for another unremarkable scientific study, however, we should take note of one of the study’s collateral findings, that men’s preferences for larger breast sizes were “significantly associated with” a greater tendency to have sexist attitudes.
Ars Technica blogger John Timmer points out that the study is really only relevant as a eyebrow-raising curiosity. Researchers Viren Swami and Martin J. Tovée only surveyed white men living in London, so it’s pretty impossible to draw any earth-shattering conclusions about breast preferences and sexism. However, the study abstract notes that the results of the survey,