What is "sexist"

Usage examples of "sexist".

Jones, who we yesterday characterized as a no-good, racist, homophobe, sexist bigot, is in fact none of these things.

And while Cai could grill a mean shark steak, he humbly accepted his sexist role of landscape pawn and maintainer of all things mechanical, and left the kitchen to the queen.

I know it's utter melodrama and shamelessly sexist, but what the hell.

Well, Ho has this whole fantasy world of hairy superdykes named the Itty Bitty Titty Committee, who kick the testosterone out of Evil Sexist Oinkers.

America, which is usually portrayed as an oppressive, racist, sexist, homophobic nation with few redeeming qualities.

If, as seems fairly straightforward, a woman can unconsciously contribute to patriarchal institutions and act in accordance with ideologies rooted in misogyny, it stands to reason that a male writer might challenge sexist ideas without setting out on an ideological crusade to do so.

In a truly absurd departure from reality, at some point waiters temporarily became waitpersons, as if waiters and waitresses were somehow sexist terms.

Edwige is happily installed in the new world, where the sexist fashions and disguises of the superannuated Don Juan, his cape and his sword, are laughably out of place.

Until other theorists carefully point out that precious few of these societies were actually egalitarian, that warfare most definitely existed, that the very seeds of sexist subjugation were planted here, that slavery was not unheard of.

For all my transgressions against womankind -- not least my apparent inability to treasure one of their number above all else in life, as did many so-called sexist pigs -- I was contrite, and did not expect absolution.

But Proetus, "in his sexist pig way," had abused her as if the child were sprung from a love affair rather than a rape, and she was not displeased when Perseus, in fulfillment of his destiny, had come through town with his bride Andromeda and the Gorgon's head not long afterward, broken in on one of her husband's "swinish revels" -- from which she'd been fortuitously absent out of disgust for them -- and turned the whole court and elite guard to stone when panicked Proetus gave the order to attack.

I tried to raise Andromeda's consciousness on the subject of marriage as a sexist institution.

For interspersed in the dialogue were debasingly sexist lines that cheapened the entire experience.

Putting by the Second Rule for Prisoners, Melanippe then informed me, more calmly but still in a cool fury, of the First -- to die in battle rather than be taken prisoner, since Amazons must expect to be raped by their Sexist Pig Captors -- and the Third -- if captured by surprise, to kill oneself as soon as possible, not to afford more gratification than necessary to those same SPC's.

Fortunately, she declines to push the obvious gender buttons, and instead presents the nocturnal assaults in terms more humanist than sexist, while offering her own speculation on the materia prima of demonology.