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So it's okay to be sexist if you aren't doing it because you're attracted to the person?
by smallblacksun 16y ago
So it's okay to be sexist if you aren't doing it because you're attracted to the person?
- pyre 16y agoI'm not saying anything of the sort. The implication that professors are being nice to female students to get sex implies that they are trying to abuse the power of their authority. If they are being nice because they perceive female students as more receptive to/grateful for help, it's a little more benign, no?
- smallblacksun 16y agoNot for the male students who don't get responses from the professor due to the stereotyping.
- teilo 16y agoSexism != reacting to the sexes differently. Men and women are not the same, and therefore they evoke different responses and reactions. This is not sexism.
- natrius 16y agoThat's exactly what sexism is. It's not always necessarily a bad thing.
- teilo 16y agoNo, it is not. Sexism, like racism, never has a positive or neutral connotation in any context in which I have ever heard it used. A black man is not intrinsically different than a white man. Therefore, to treat him such is racist, period. A woman is, however, intrinsically different than a man. To denigrate her because she is a women is sexism. To treat her as if she were a man and refuse to acknowledge her as a woman is, arguably, also sexism. On the contrary, merely to react differently to her, but not negatively, is not sexism.
- natrius 16y agoI find that separating connotations from the core meanings of words leads to clearer arguments. In your position, if someone calls you sexist and you deny that, it's not clear if you're denying treating someone differently based on their sex or if you just don't think you're mistreating the person. My stance is more likely to lead to a response of, "Yes, I'm being sexist, but not in a wrong way." We generally agree.