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Do men really understand what sexism is?
Article here. Excerpt:
'The air around us has recently been so thick with accusations of racism and sexism that it’s sometimes been a struggle to get a gulp of unpolluted air.
One day, Richard Scudamore and David Dein of the FA are diving into serious, career-threatening hot water for exchanging and forwarding lewd, unsavoury emails. The previous moment, an obscure presenter on BBC local radio was getting sacked for haplessly playing an 80 year-old record that mentioned the N-word. Then Nigel Farage is roasted alive for unguardedly admitting that he’d be more nervous if a group of Romanian men moved into the house next door than if a German family took up residence.
The writer of Dr Who had to be defended by one of the series’ female actors against accusations of sexism in his work while the singer Pharrell Willams had to issue grovelling statements declaring his undying love for women after being hauled over the feminist coals for committing some “unacceptable” (as they say) solecism on record.
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If any man could draw up a comprehensive, infallible guide to navigating this treacherous territory, we would certainly erect a statute to his everlasting memory.
There is a Twitter account dedicated to exploring and enumerating precisely the distinctions and differences between the acceptably erotic and the intolerably sexist.
It's called @sexyisntsexist. It is, of course, under the control of a woman.'
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