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According to the wikipedia article you linked to, the original meaning of sexism is "judging people by their sex when sex doesn’t matter." See also the descript
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
According to the wikipedia article you linked to, the original meaning of sexism is "judging people by their sex when sex doesn’t matter." See also the description "coming to conclusions about someone’s value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant".
Based on the wikipedia article you linked to, my use of the term appears closer to the original than yours.
None of these descriptions seem to encompass the phenomena of women making choices with different probabilities than men. So I'm pretty sure my definition is closer to the original than yours.
Not that it matters, of course - the underlying concepts are the important point. The words used to describe them are simply conveniences to avoid verbose descriptions of the concepts each time.
- pron 12y ago> So I'm pretty sure my definition is closer to the original than yours. It is most certainly not. You're free to study this fascinating topic further, or not -- but you're simply wrong about this. When feminists (who coined the term) say sex, they are very particular to contrast it, and its biological meaning, from gender, which is sex's social construction. So when it says "sex doesn't matter" it means "biology doesn't matter". > the underlying concepts are the important point. With that I can agree. And the big problem is that of slavery, or the Matrix, or whatever other analogy you want to pick to describe the extant social structure regardless of intent, and not the misogynic acts performed by individuals. The issue of freezing eggs obviously falls under the category of sexism (or not -- you can argue the claim, but not the careful categorization) -- not misogyny.