| I wholeheartedly agree that she faced a lot of prejudice. But not all prejudice is sexism, just ask any other kind of minority! There are minority men who are on the receiving end of prejudice who will tell you that there's a lot more to it than just sexism. > The idea that the harassment wouldn't happen if she were old and ugly doesn't make it not about sexism Yes, yes it does. From the dictionary: sexism: prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. synonyms: sexual discrimination, chauvinism, gender prejudice, gender bias
"your hiring practices have generated numerous complaints about sexism" According to that definition a man who likes women and hits on some of them isn't sexist, unless he also happens to think that men are better than women. My point is simply that sexism isn't defined as "all things that happen to a woman that she doesn't like" or else literally everything bad that happens to a woman is sexism and I think it's obvious that her alarm failing to go off isn't sexism or getting in a car accident isn't sexism. It sounds to me like she experienced sexism, sexual harassment, ageism, dress-ism (is that the right word?) and voice-ism (???) and they're all bad. But they're not all sexism. |
Again, I will say, especially to your concluding remark, this is a distinction without a difference. Because (eg.) if someone is prejudicial against a human with breasts, that does not make them simply "breast-ist" because to boil down to that level is ridiculous and entirely context-free. SImilar to everything youw rote, because all of this is occurring in a particular context.