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Sexism is about power relations. Like racism and capitalism. Men dominate society. Doesn't matter how meritorious women are. Women can be tacitly competent and
by calibraxis 12y ago
Sexism is about power relations. Like racism and capitalism. Men dominate society. Doesn't matter how meritorious women are. Women can be tacitly competent and men buffoonish, yet incompetents routinely triumph.
After all, they're gatekeepers and enforcers.
Since society ridiculously built a massive infrastructure based on gender, women and men are trained differently. To the intellectual destruction of men.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoThis is true only if you use a specific sociological definition of "sexism", which is absolutely not to be equivocated with the one in common vernacular.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> This is true only if you use a specific sociological definition of "sexism", which is absolutely not to be equivocated with the one in common vernacular. I think you mean "equate". "Equivocate" means something quite different.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoActually, I do mean "equivocate". To quote Wikipedia, it is "the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time)".
- dragonwriter 12y agoI know what "equivocate" means -- but when you equivocate by conflating one sense of a word with another sense of the word, its not described as equivocating the first sense with the latter sense. You might equivocate with a person (the person to whom you address the equivocation), or equivocate by interchanging one definition with another.
- Torgo 12y agoIn the article, evidence is presented that boys and girls need to be trained differently, and are being trained the same, to boys' detriment. That is the exact opposite of what you're saying.