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sexism

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Word definitions for sexism in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to people of the other sex or gender. 2 Different treatment or discrimination based on a difference of sex or gender.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1968; see sexist + -ism .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex

Usage examples of sexism.

She is calling racism, sexism, class ism ageism, homophobia, and colonialism by the name of body hatred, and She is linking the politics of control back to the abuse of Flerself.

Similarly, texts would be read in the context of racism, sexism, elitism, speciesism, jingoism, imperialism, logocentrism, phallocentrism.

It was embarrassing at times and always boring, but her view was that casual racism, sexism and homophobia always had to be confronted.

Shadow is clearly at work in the midst of the horrors of war, racism, sexism, agism, and the technological destruction of the biosphere.

Once we recognize postmodernist discourses as an attack on the dialectical form of modern sovereignty, then we can see more clearly how they contest systems of domination such as racism and sexism by deconstructing the boundaries that maintain the hierarchies between white and black, masculine and feminine, and so forth.

As an extension of this principle, Jeremy sees in dreams the healing magic we so desperately need today to deliver us from racism, sexism and every other form of tyranny and exploitation, including war itself.

I also addressed a college class about story writing, reading an excerpt from my story "Soft Like a Woman," which is a savage antisexism commentary, because I support education and oppose sexism.

It makes impossible all the sins of locality, all the errors that arise from being prisoned in one body and no other--as racism, sexism, classism, and of course and especially nationalism.

No matter what atrocity you commit, you can stake a claim for sympathy, moan about being a victim of racism, reverse racism, sexism, ageism, classism, prejudice against fat people, ugly people, dumb people, smart people.

That's one of the reasons why you quite commonly find the business sector reasonably willing, often happy to support efforts to overcome racism and sexism.

Its plot moves through serial killers, ice-cold revenge, doppelgangers, lingering effects of childhood violence, sexism on the force, fatal attractions, and lethal media feeding frenzies.

For once, Allison had found the constraints of Grayson's quaint, antiquated sexism rather enjoyable, and she occasionally entertained herself with the hope that enough concentrated bile would finish off the miserable, small-souled cretin once and for all.

In ways I do not think Amy Vanderbilt would have approved: first, I blame the faint cavalier tone of adolescent sexism in this story--however innocent and moronically slaphappy it may be--on Huck.