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I think you don't really know what sexist means. There is zero prejudice or discrimination involved here. Merely describing a woman or man sexy is not sexist. I

• anologwintermut 13y ago
  It is sexist. Mayer's appearance has nothing to do with the context of the video and focusing on it perpetuates the double standards about what we expect of men in terms of appearance, effort towards it, dress, etc and what we expect of women in the same. Mentioning it implies it's something worth mentioning. It isn't, for either men or women. The trick is it's self evident that mentioning it for men would be irrelevant. For some reason, however, people take issue with someone pointing out that it ought to be irrelevant for women.
• saraid216 13y ago
  > There is zero prejudice or discrimination involved here. That's the elementary school explanation of sexism. It's useful as a shorthand for explaining the concept in a sentence, such as saying "the ground is down", but it misses all the larger nuance, such as the concept of an inertial frame and the arbitrariness of coordinate systems. With sexism, reducing the concept down to "prejudice or discrimination" misses its more essential points about psychology and sociology. It doesn't explain what objectification is nor how gender imbalances are arbitrary, even if we have some idea of how they came about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze