Beliefs About Wife Beating Among Turkish College Students: The Effects of Patriarchy, Sexism, and Sex Differences by Nuray Sakall from link.springer.com . Sakall talked about how patriarchy changed the view of Turkish college students on how they viewed the topic of wife beating a quote I retrieved from that website is, "...male participants exhibited more approval of wife beating than did female participants. Further, male participants who had more favorable attitudes toward patriarchy and who were high on hostile sexism viewed wife beating as more acceptable and blamed women for eliciting the violence"(Sakall, 6). This quote explains that males who are more accepting towards patriarchy are more accepting of wife beating. Another quote I got from Sakall is,"Regression analysis showed that patriarchy and hostile sexism predicted attitudes toward wife beating the best" (Sakall, 9). This quote are stating that men agree of beating up their wives because patriarchy tells them that they have power.