This is a pretty archaic
kind of sexism used to ingrain shame into women's relationship with their own bodies.
Not exact matches
I know having shared this with other men, I am not alone in this and the
kind of issue I am talking about it every bit as in need
of attention as other forms
of sexism that we have been discussing if equality is the aim.
Sexism, racism, and all other
kinds of «isms» have a strangle hold within the church and on many souls.
They smack
of racism, hate,
sexism and all the other negatives but they still pass and get applauded by their own
kind.
But it also comes I think a bit from some subconscious bias and latent
sexism in the industry, from a very, very
kind of monoculture in some ways, that's spread quite quickly from Silicon Valley,» she says.
On the one hand the Internet has made it easier to highlight racism,
sexism and other social ills, call them out and show a
kind of collective outrage about it.
But
of course,
sexism has pushed a lot
of negative stereotypes towards these athletes, moving to discredit any
kind of recognition that they would otherwise be getting.
While a YA book, it tackles classism,
sexism and all
kinds of heavy issues.
At this juncture you might expect some
kind of damning indictment
of Disney
sexism, sexualising this young girl by painting her as a siren.
It's easy to dismiss discussion
of issues like
sexism in movies as tangential and unnecessary, the
kind of thing culture critics drag out when they have nothing else to say.
Part
of what enabled this
kind of behaviour to flourish is an endemic culture
of Hollywood
sexism, which Ringwald exemplifies with this anecdote about an unidentified «head
of a major studio» who, after she put her acting career on hold and moved to Paris, was quoted as saying «I wouldn't know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face.»
Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion
of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one
of its few major female characters (Speaking
of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is
of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the same
of the female
kind?).
The idea
of benevolent
sexism is essentially that while trying to appear overly
kind or generous, someone actually views the other person as incapable or incompetent because
of their gender.