There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn’t get signed. They didn’t say I was ugly. They didn’t say that they didn’t like the music. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Elbow, James Blunt – you can be a gnarly old beardy bloke with a bit of a paunch and that’s all right?
Racism is over in the ‘Star Trek’ future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present day in such a subversive and smart way, you know?
Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers.
I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive ‘isms.’ But once you let go of the blame and excuses, you’ll see that you can alter your position on your own.
The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, ‘if only’.
The fantastic thing about ‘Jasper Jones’ is that although it’s set in 1969, the themes are still so topical. We’re still struggling with racism and sexism and domestic violence and abuse.
Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.
There’s sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk’s burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed.
Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we’re women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We’ve been feeling the inequality; we’ve been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.
Putting women’s traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It’s the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.
I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It’s funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men’s work as more important than women’s, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there’s still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn’t blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I’m a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.
I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others… name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain’t the character’s fault, that isn’t sexism, that’s just not servicing the character.
Parents of all girls must simultaneously explain overt and covert sexism, name it whenever they see it, and teach their daughters to do the same.
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.
Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.
I’m beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.
Women should not fall back on ‘sexism’ unless they really feel that it’s happening.
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I’ll never know if it gets me any jobs. There’s a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it’s legitimised. It’s also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.
It’s really important to be a strong role model. It’s one of my main things because I feel I’ve been exposed in such an extreme way to a lot of sexism.
The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt – because the system is good at hiding it.
We had so many obstacles. We had a lot of sexism and misogyny, there’s a lot of things that were against us. But we’ve just pushed forward and we showed everybody.
I’m interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there’s still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
I try to not assume things are sexism. I’m trying to be good natured about why things are happening.
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as ‘competently bossy’ and ‘bossily competent’ by a male journalist, and I thought, ‘Gosh, ‘bossy’ is never used of a man.’
The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don’t know if it’s getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don’t entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man’s life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It’s their problem. If I see a door comin’ my way, I’m knockin’ it down. And if I can’t knock down the door, I’m sliding through the window. I’ll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
As more women ‘lean in’ and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there’s another barrier to progress that hasn’t been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.
Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.
There’s still a really divisive residue in our nation that’s called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
The Left always promote their fake news and conspiracy theories – pushing the lies of ‘racism,’ ‘sexism,’ ‘homophobi-ism,’ ‘Islamophobi-ism.’ They support NFL thugs lying about so-called ‘police brutality,’ which doesn’t exist.
Sexism is real in this country.
I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.
It’s something that can get overwhelming and frustrating, the sexism I experience in my career. It’s just obviously a big issue in women’s sport, like salaries, media coverage, just general things that you have to cope with in your career.
I mean, obviously, this is a business that favors men as hosts without a doubt and they’re often paid more for the same job so I guess you could call that sexism but, personally, I haven’t come across it yet.
When I first joined the DA’s office, there weren’t that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.
I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.
You can’t be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It’s like reverse sexism.
People of conscience are compelled to oppose racism, sexism, and intolerance of people with different sexual identities and orientation wherever and whenever they see it.
There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone’s enemies – sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
Sexism is bad enough when it’s men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it’s even more deflating.
Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many ‘intelligent’ systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.
Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I’m an optimist, so I like to think we’ve progressed in some ways – in Australia, we get equal pay.
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