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Recent empirical research suggests that the growing opposition to sexist humor might indeed be justified. By trivializing sex discrimination, sexist humor creates a norm of tolerance of sex discrimination. In this context, sexist behavior can be more easily justified as falling within the bounds of social acceptability (Ford, 2015; Ford, Boxer, Armstrong, & Edel, 2008). Indeed, sexist humor has been shown to promote discrimination against women in a number of ways. For instance, sexist men exposed to sexist humor have reported greater tolerance of sexist events (Ford, 2000), greater willingness to discriminate against women (Ford et al., 2008), and greater tolerance of societal sexism (Ford, Woodzicka, Triplett, & Kochersberger, 2013). Most notably for the present research, men exposed to sexist humor have reported greater propensity to commit sexual violence against women including rape (Romero-Sanchez, Duran, Carretero-Dios, Megias, & Moya, 2010; Ryan & Kanjorski, 1998), particularly insofar as they have antagonistic attitudes toward women (Thomae & Viki, 2013). Ford and Ferguson's (2004) prejudiced norm theory explains these findings suggesting that sexist humor creates a social norm that permits men to express sexism in various ways without fears of reprisal. The present research builds on this literature by testing new hypotheses designed to establish boundary conditions for prejudiced norm theory as a framework for understanding the relationship between exposure to sexist humor and men's self-reported rape proclivity.

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