Sentences with phrase «of sexism as»

Taking the current conditions of sexism as a starting - point, the gallery has consciously been collecting the boldest and most exciting compositions from 10 pioneering painters, both established and emerging.
Far from repudiating this biblical pattern of thought, a feminist denunciation of sexism as a primal expression of human fallenness can reinterpret that pattern with new power and meaning.

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For Jennings, who had grown up as a spirited tomboy bristling at the countless instances of sexism she faced, it was a transforming experience.
We're more aware of sexism when it shows its face as well, and more willing to take action to challenge it.
Social media attacks on her led Kensington Palace (Harry's residence, as well as that of his brother William) to issue a statement last year decrying the «outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.»
Some also said they experienced a range of discrimination and sexism including comments about their appearance, level of experience, knowledge and attire, as well as a lack of understanding that women pitch their businesses differently.
The fund comes during a tumultuous year for the venture capital and tech industries as they deal with sexism scandals that have resulted in the ouster of notable investors and executives at firms like Ignition Partners and startups like Uber and SoFi.
Often referred to as second - generation gender bias, «what we are talking about is not our mother's sexism; a lot of it is not overt,» says Bennett.
She added that the Gamergate incidents, as well as the stories of sexism in the industry described by many female game developers, have spurred some women to tell Edwards that they're thinking about leaving the industry or discouraging their daughters from working in it.
The move by the embattled Uber leader comes as Uber conducts a wide - ranging internal investigation into allegations of sexism and sexual harassment, as well as substantive management issues that have painted the company as a goat rodeo when it comes to its treatment of employees.
The incredible * scramble * to then paint every PC sin as hers and hers alone (helped along by a healthy dose of old - fashioned sexism) should be recognized for what it is: an attempt to hold on to power.
Her essay detailed a year of working at Uber as an engineer that was wrought with sexual harassment and sexism.
As we previously reported, Fowler had referenced in her essay a series of managers who had mishandled her complaints about sexism and sexual harassment.
The Holder investigation — as it has been called internally — was launched earlier this year, in the wake of an explosive blog post by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler about pervasive sexism, unchecked sexual harassment and a general state of corporate fuck - upery.
That includes a massive investigation into allegations of pervasive sexism at the company, as well as a troublesome lawsuit initiated by Alphabet that alleges that the company stole self - driving car technology.
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.
Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a religion that Jesus preached, but a religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points out, some still have a lot of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.
Grandma got herself a good lawyer, and in October was liberated from years of sexism to claim a little hill in North Carolina as her own.
And other racisms, such as sexism... of women for being women or for gays for being gay... people suffering because of who they are.
But I can see no reason for enshrining the maleness of God as part of our orthodoxy, and to the extent that the Trinity supports a patriarchal society or sexism it is not in keeping with the Christian message and can not be used.
By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.
The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.
Singer identified this idea as a form of discrimination, as odious as racism and sexism.
The movement to correct the injustices of sexism can reach deep enough to effect changes in racial and political areas of our common life as well.
Do we need a new way of viewing ourselves that rejects speciesism, just as we have rejected, or intend to reject, racism and sexism?
In it she «explored both the sexism of the Jewish tradition» and the contradictions she felt at the time «between Judaism and feminism as alternative communities.»
In the light of Easter as it shines specifically on Christians in America in 1974, it can hardly remain hidden that this system of competition, domination and violence, of sexism and oppression, carefully programming us by the pattern of the marketplace and subliminally driven into us by advertising, inhibits, to say the least, our walking as men and women of love and hope.
To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»
It is as if Paul was a split - person, unable to resolve his conflicts of sexism and Christian liberty in a consistent manner.12
Moreover, this constant process is carried out as Christians wrestle self - consciously with problems of importance, such as the environmental crisis, hunger, poverty, nuclear weapons capable of omnicide, sexism, racism, classism, and anti-Judaism.
While these notions seem terribly abstract, nevertheless, in the case of Christianity, we see them operating as we acknowledge the disharmony as well as deprivation of greater richness in the sexism, racism and anti-Judaism of its inherited tradition.
Instead, liberation theologies have arisen as intellectual and religious responses to very concrete struggles for justice and love on the part of those committed to overcoming the dehumanizations and depersonalizations resulting from classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.
The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical cultures had, how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated and frustrated in authoritarian societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.
Issues such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, handicapism, anthropocentrism, and whatever other «isms» we have devised toward the ill - being of peoples require more than an analysis of individual sin to account for the pervasiveness and depth of the problem.
Yet ecological disasters, fearsome instruments of war, vast systems of classism, racism, and sexism all have impact upon our lives, and we experience ourselves as caught up in such systems with or without our consent.
such as the structures of social oppression, economic structures, and structures of sexism.
Can womanists take more seriously the interrelationship of sexism and racism even as feminists strive to deal with their own culpability?
Then a columnist invoked the Inquisition, portrayed the theology of priesthood as neurotic sexism, and even mocked the Pope's haberdashery.
Accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and other related words do not have quite the emotive power in East Asian societies as they do for contemporary Westerns, living under the shadow of the Holocaust, years of massive immigration, and sensitivity training.
Some of us, feeling the need for a name that would primarily indicate the struggle against sexism that is part of our daily bread while also helping us identify one another in the trenches as we fight for our survival within different Hispanic communities and in society at large, have called ourselves feministas hispanai.
She speaks of a feminist critical hermeneutics deriving its truth «not only from biblical writings but also from contemporary struggle of women against racism, sexism and poverty as oppressive systems of patriarchy».21
The «homosexual problem» is really a «heterosexual problem», just as the «woman problem» is basically the problem of male sexism.
With the 1990s, some war movies examined honor, duty and code versus the sanctity of an individual life (A Few Good Men) to sexism and the issues of female authority (Courage Under Fire, GI Jane) to the internal demons besieging a leader and group of misfit soldiers as they sacrificed their lives for one (Saving Private Ryan).
Now, I agree that the questions bouncing around about Palin's capabilities as a mother reflect a certain amount of sexism.
Rooted as it is in male sexism, homophobia undermines male friendships, bolsters the oppression of women and contributes fearsomely to our social violence.
Devaluing females, an offshoot of sexism and misogyny, leads to treating them as less than human.
As I have written in a previous article, Sin is the belly of sexism, racism, classism and other forms of systemic inequality resulting in inequitable education / training / opportunity / pay; harassment; domestic and sexual violence; pornography; sex trafficking; slavery and other crimes.
As thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be madAs thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be madas Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be made.
Sin, defined as wrong relationship among human beings and between them and the rest of nature, fosters not just economic and political injustice, not just racism and sexism, but the destruction of the entire created order.
However, in the case of Christianity, we see them operating as we acknowledge the disharmony as well as deprivation of greater richness in the sexism, racism, anti-Judaism of its inherited tradition.
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