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user-inactivated  ·  3843 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Editor's blog: I am sexist Let's talk about how, why and what I'm doing about it.

    It is a sexist act because it requires violence against a woman

That's not actually what it means to be sexist.

I could just as easily say it's sexist to shoot a woman, only later it's revealed the woman was shot in the middle of a battlefield in combat, and suddenly it becomes surprisingly unsexist since said woman was being shot at equally with the men.

It is the context that makes it sexist, not the act itself.





iammyownrushmore  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not the baseline violence part, it's the

    requires violence against a woman

part.

You're right about context, but you're wrong about your analogy.

bioemerl  ·  3843 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The context doesn't seem to make it very sexist either. It's not trying to degrade or attack women, it's making a reference to a western trope.

user-inactivated  ·  3843 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree, I was just pointing out that violence by itself doesn't indicate sexism.