Psychologist Fired For "Why Black women Are Less Attractive"

A psychologist has been fired from his blogger post at Psychology Today and had his profile page deleted by the company's website after posting a "study" blog stating "Why All Black Women Are Less Attractive."

Satoshi Kanazawa, also employed by the London School of Economics, recent posting of an unfounded blog stating, "black women are rated less attractive than other women," received disdain from hoards of angry people, not just black women.

His "scientific analysis" of black women's inferior beauty is based on the opinions of unidentified "interviewers" and their entirely subjective standards of beauty.

Having some men in white coats rate the attractiveness of a handful of women on a scale of 1-5 resembles a glorified version of the game "hot or not", not some serious attempt at engaging the scientific method.

My question is How was Kanazawa allowed to spew his hateful message about "racial inferiority". Psychology Today's attempt to generate attention and profit backfired resulting in a so called "apology". Never mind the fact that the publication damaged its credibility.

Source: The Grio Blog, Lori Adelman

Related articles

• Satoshi Kanazawa's racist nonsense should not be tolerated | Nanjala Nyabola (guardian.co.uk)
• The Data Are In Regarding Satoshi Kanazawa (blogs.nature.com)
• Psychologist Fired For "Why Black Women Are Unattractive Study" (newsone.com)

"Black Women Are Less Attractive": Psychology Today

Nearly 20 years after a black parent documented how hard it was to hear, "Mommy, I want to be white,"1 Psychology Today reinforced the false and hurtful sentiment that Black women aren't attractive.

Last week they published an article claiming it to be scientific fact that Black women are less beautiful than women of other races,2 penned by Satoshi Kanazawa, who is notorious for hiding behind pseudoscience to promote discredited racist and sexist ideas.3

By giving Kanazawa a platform and validating his ideas, Psychology Today dehumanized Black women and girls everywhere. After widespread public outcry, they removed the article from their website.4 But that alone won't erase the damage they've done by validating these discredited ideas — the editors need to apologize, explain how this happened, and let us know that it won't happen again. Please join us in demanding they do so immediately, and then ask your friends and family to do the same:

Related Articles

Colorofchange.com-It's a Fact that Black Women are unattractive

The Data's In: Satoshi Kanazawa is a Bad Scientist
ScientificAmerican.com

Satoshi Kanazwa's racist nonsense ...
Guardian.Co.UK