With words like sexist, it can be hard to distinguish between two different types of statements: - the observation that a specific group is hurt by something

With words like sexist, it can be hard to distinguish between two different types of statements: - the observation that a specific group is hurt by something - the claim that individual bias against that group causes the hurt, or that the inverse group is to blame for the hurt And to make things harder, sometimes people cause trouble by saying things that are deliberately ambiguous between those two, or sometimes saying one thing and sometimes saying the other. That's frustrating when it happens. But in the opposite direction, it's also easy misinterpret someone as though they're saying the second thing, when they're really trying to say the first thing. And when someone gets misinterpreted like that, that's frustrating too. I think a pretty good compromise is to try to assume people are saying the first thing as much as possible.