2007-12-01 13:47:05 · 24 answers · asked by thurston_lowe 1 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
"Sexism" is just another word that gets used to fabricate an excuse when someone is trying to avoid accountability for their own failures.
2007-12-01 13:57:20 · answer #1 · answered by U Wish 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sexism is an attitude and a set of beliefs, which are dispositions, not mental states. A mental state has genuine duration. A disposition, like a capacity, does not. (When do you know how to play chess? All the time? Only when you think about chess? When are you sexist?)
And yes, there are people with such dispositions.
Sexism is also a cultural and institutional phenomenon, by the way.
2007-12-01 21:58:20 · answer #2 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sexism exists, without a doubt.
2007-12-01 22:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by skylight 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It really depends on what your personal definition of sexist is. Both genders have their ideas about what is appropriate and inappropriate comments about gender. Have I personally encountered sexism...sure! An example of what I find sexist is :
When my brother-in-law was getting married he had an older uncle come for the wedding .He was there while all the preparations were being made at the reception hall. My brother-in-law had grabbed a broom and was sweeping a walk way since mud was being tracked there and his uncle said " Why are you doing that? That is bit*h work." He then pointed to my soon to be sister-in-law and said " She needs to do that." I then told him to please go wait with the other guests, ( so my sis- in -law could calm down because this statement clearly upset her), He then proceeded to tell my bro-in-law that I did not need to speak to him, women should be seen and not heard. He then left. Now I really just regarded him as a jerk and did not really think about it until later since I was so busy that day. Later, I realized that it is because of ignorant thinking like that, people who probably teach attitudes like this to sons and daughters, is why sexist comments and attitudes like this stay around even in this day and age.
2007-12-01 22:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by omorris1978 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
well if i denied someone a job even though they were more than capable of doing that job simply because of their gender then that is a reality and not a state of mind
some people say this has happened to them,so therefore the answer must be YES sexism does exist
and NO its not a state of mind
but maybe not in all cases
2007-12-01 21:54:14 · answer #5 · answered by infobod2nd 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sexism is an alteration of a fact in order to make it more or less harsh on one gender, doing the opposite on the another. do not confuse with "a fact that implies that a gender is better than another in something" that, although politically incorrect in half of the cases (men better than women at that) isn't sexist.
2007-12-01 22:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of course it exists, and it begins at very young ages. When a father or mother tells their daughter she can't do what boys do because it isn't what girls do. That's sexism and it fills our daily lives.
2007-12-01 21:51:30 · answer #7 · answered by GothBabeAlexandra 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it exists AS and starts with a state of mind.
2007-12-01 21:51:17 · answer #8 · answered by SND123 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It does exist, but everyone has varying ideas of what sexism is.
2007-12-02 00:02:44 · answer #9 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it's a state of mind in this blame culture I live in, if you can't do something it's not YOUR fault anymore it's because someone wants to hold you back. Successfully people both male and female don't whinge, they get sh*t done and don't go and protest and get more bullsh*t laws that further feed the pockets of lawyers/leeches.
2007-12-01 22:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by Johno 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋