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I carefully avoided saying that it wouldn't be sexism if the sexes were the same. At least, I tried to, although perhaps I edited badly. I started out with a l
by nkurz 10y ago
I carefully avoided saying that it wouldn't be sexism if the sexes were the same. At least, I tried to, although perhaps I edited badly. I started out with a longer example including reference to the US Census's definition of Hispanic as an ethnicity rather than a race and including North African's as White, but decided it was too confusing and ended up "wouldn't you want to know".
(There are situations where the sex of the judge might be interesting in discussing the sexism once it was established, but not in determining if it exists.)
Yes, and not only for discussing, but to have any reasonable chance of working toward a solution. I think the "fix" almost certainly depends on the cause of the prejudice, which I think almost certainly depends on the sexes of the parties.
Similarly, with "racism", mutatis mutandis.
But that's the question, right? What stays the same, and what changes? And in this case, do you think that "racism" is a helpful diagnosis?