The world would be a better place. Just if women were nicer to men, or whites to blacks or blacks to whites. Russians to Ukrainians, Iranians to Israelis Muslims to Jews and Christian’s to Muslims. And all vise versa. A universal increase in kindness would benefit the world immensely. However men are not especially unkind to women in the western world so the specificity of your statement may be erroneous.
Exactly. Sexism still exists in the west and there are so many men today that want to make women cattle again. When we stop fighting sexism in the west that’s when women’s rights start to slip back. We can’t become complacent. Just because it’s better today than it was ten years ago doesn’t mean the problem has been fixed.
If you must know the opinions of the women in my family range from basically the same as mine to borderline “men are trash.” Sexism. Women are not a bloc that all share the same opinion. And if you think for a second that there isn’t sexism in the other direction as well you are mistaken. Have the women in my life had bad experiences with men? Absolutely. Have the men in my life (including me.). Had bad experiences with women? Also yes.
Also it’s remarkably sexist to assume “the women in my life.” Should be disappointed and embarrassed because my thoughts on sexism and how to handle it are different from yours. They have their own opinions and views completely independent of mine, and your assumption that they all agree with you if I just “LISTEN TO THEM.” Is depriving them of their own opinions. Once again “as I tell my friends when they say something sexist towards women.). Women are not a bloc, don’t act like they are.
I have been physically attacked multiple times. Once I was held again a wall while someone groped in my pocket then nearly held back in college for defending myself. Been called a fagot for having long hair (I was 9). Been mercilessly bullied and falsely accused of title 9 and even after it was proven definitively false (like video evidence and multiple witnesses false.). It continued to haunt me.
You just proved my point by being blatantly sexist. “Men can’t experience sexism.” Is an absurdly sexist thing to say. And the line of personal attacks and dismissal based on my sex after just adds to it. If you must know I hold what is considered a very manly job, but I still retain the right to my own opinions, even ones you don’t like.
Sexism is discrimination “on the bases of sex.” (To borrow a well known phrase.) Of I was bullied for being a man with long hair, that’s sexism. If I was the target of liable for being a man with a different opinion (in this case that men and women should be separated in contact sports like boxing.). That’s sexism. If I was attacked on line and literally told I’m nothing because I am a man saying something you think I shouldn’t…. That’s sexism. Misogyny is discrimination against women.
I suppose you’re right, I probably never will change your mind. But you would do well to introspect on your actions a little bit. The angry self justification you are showing is a dangerous trait that will hurt you a lot more than anyone else. And yes “men can’t have long hair because they’re men.” Is sexist. And yes, white people can experience racism.
That’s a lot of invective, but you still haven’t offered a definition of the term. And I see telling a man (or in this case child.) that he can’t have long hair and be a man as sexist. Just like telling a woman she can’t wear pants and should wear a dress if she wants to be a woman is also sexist. Sex based group A cannot do non biological thing B because of reason they won’t belong to group A. Sexism.
That’s not what you said tho😭 you said you got called a f@g, which is homophobic and now you’re saying something different. Men can experience sexism but typically they get verbal sexism. We deal with that daily. Sexism for yall isn’t what it is for us. Boohoo you got called a f@g, I couldn’t even type all the awful things said to me by men let alone ALL physical things. Almost every woman you ask will have experienced it. Y’all wanna be oppressed to fucking bad.
Ok so what you’re doing here is seeing something very real and morally wrong, centuries of injustice and various degrees of institutionalization misogyny, and translating that as “sexism.” That’s not a true equivalence nor a correct definition for the word. Sexism as defined means discrimination based on sex. And while past societies have been sexist (mostly against women.). That doesn’t preclude modern people from being sexist in any way.
And if you look at someone who has experienced real sexism as defined and tell them “you didn’t experience that discrimination. Because in the past people who shared your chromosome structure did bad things.” You’re not only logically incorrect, you are engaging in exactly what you rail justly against. That being discriminatory practices based on sex. The answer to historical sexism is not current and future sexism.