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> Saying "that wasn't sexist; so-and-so is actually less assertive" kind of assumes that we're talking about conscious sexism. The idea that less assertive imp
by braveo 9y ago
> Saying "that wasn't sexist; so-and-so is actually less assertive" kind of assumes that we're talking about conscious sexism.
The idea that less assertive implies female is sexist.
The person you're responding to could have simply meant the other participants refused to let the moderator walk over them like that, which has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with behavior.
- oconnor663 9y ago> The person you're responding to could have simply meant the other participants refused to let the moderator walk over them like that, which has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with behavior. I think that's precisely what they meant. There are a lot of dimensions here: - The other participants might've behaved differently than Prof. Hubeny, in a way that got them treated differently. - The moderator might've had different expectations about how different people on the panel would behave, or how they might want him to behave, prior to anyone's actual behavior. - Any difference in expectations might or might not have anything to do with sex. - Someone posted Prof. Hubeny's response elsewhere in this thread, and it sounds like her experience was pretty different from the audience's experience. Which is fine; one event can mean different things to different people. So there's room for lots of different true, sincere points to be made out of a single story.
- braveo 9y agoI don't disagree with the sentiment, but I felt it important to point out that the assumption made in the sentence I quoted was itself a sexist assumption.