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| Caedus_16 wrote: |
| Probably not, but I hold doors for anyone, man or woman, who needs a door opened or who is walking behind me. Problem is the women who get mad only thing about the sexism thing, not knowing that I'm just polite to everyone, kind of burying the hatchet in the idea that there is good feminism and feminism that is out of control. |
Caedus, I'm calling you on that statement. I think negating the legitimate complaints of sexism with that statement is kind of along the lines of telling POCs there's no racism because a vocal few see it even in places it doesn't exist.
Besides, I ascribe to the belief that it's the victims of discrimination who get to set the terms of what it is; not the majority who never experience it. |
I'll go on that statement. I think that men experience sexual discrimination all the time, but it isn't as open. Like I said, I hold doors for everyone. But its sexist when a woman yells at me for holding it for her. She assumes it is just because she is a woman, but she doesn't know me. The problem is that sexism goes both ways. I'm ashamed of the male gender as a whole, many are deplorable and are encouraged via media and music to remain so. But many of us are just polite to anyone, male or female, whatever race, whatever sexual preference. But we get jumped on for small things. The sexism goes both ways. Rhetorically sexism is actually supposed to fully mean equality. Humanism is a better term because ideally everyone would be equal.
I openly state that sexism is a live and well. I live in the bible belt, its there everywhere and everyday. So is homophobia. So are 'Vote Romney' stickers. But I'll say that the sexism goes both ways, further complicating the matter. I don't even think about it, I just try to be polite to everyone I know. No one's gender or race or sexual preferences get preferential treatment from me. My rule is that I'm nice and chivalrous to everyone unless they give me a reason not to, and I'll adhere to that till the day I die. Its how I was raised by my dad (for a hardcore republican he got a lot right with me) and I'm proud of things like that. Women are different than men in few ways, most of them cosmetic. Just like different races are all people and cultural differences are where racism lies. I think the sexism had bred reverse sexism and honestly trying to be PC can be frustrating, but I think if more people adhered to my policy of just trying to be good to everyone it would balance out.
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