'It is impossible for women to be sexist towards men'

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'People often quote the dictionary at me - “Sexism is discrimination on the basis of one’s sex” - because, as we know, all complex ideologies are easily explained in one sentence.

This definition would seem to imply that either gender can be sexist but I’m going to make a rather bold assertion today. That isn’t true. It is impossible for women to be sexist towards men.

Women can, as Melissa A. Fabello writes in her excellent essay, Why Reverse Oppression Simply Cannot Exist, make stereotypical assumptions about men, they can be prejudiced towards men, they can discriminate against men based on those prejudices.

“However,” she writes, “only oppressed people experience all of that and institutionalised violence and systematic erasure... That’s why it’s not possible to be sexist against men.”

This isn’t to say that it’s morally right for women to be prejudiced against men. Making cursory assumptions about people based on their sex, race, religion, or sexuality is a ludicrous approach to take in any situation.

But to say that women can be sexist about men, that it’s ‘the same’ when a woman makes an offensive joke about a man as when the situation is reversed, is to be wilfully blind to the deeply imbalanced world that we live in.'

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of this thought is that all men are sexist and that all women are not sexist--simply because of their sex. If that's true, it matters not what a man thinks or even what a woman thinks. If you're a man, you're sexist. And there's nothing you can do about it. So why try?

This thought also assumes women have no power in the world--when, in fact, they do.

This also relieves women of any need to govern their own behavior--because they can do no wrong.

This train of thought strikes as the most sexist ideology possible. Sexism is not the result of what you think--it's a result of simply existing as a male. Being a male is being evil--which is what feminists have long believed. Women good, men bad--the world's simplest and most sexist theology.

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