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Why does everybody talk about sexism?

Why does everybody talk about sexism?

Posted Mar 22, 2013 17:47 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

Sexism is discrimination or prejudice based on a person's sex. Adria Richards' original tweet otoh only mentioned jokes and puns with a sexual connotation. Not every dirty joke is sexist, and not every sexist comment involves sexuality, and people should stop talking about sexism when they really mean obscenity. Case in point: this is dirty, but not sexist (indeed, it's arguably feminist). This otoh is sexist, but not dirty.


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