sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on sex. Any attitude, action or institutional structure which systemically subordinates a person or group of people because of their sex, is said to be practicing sexism.

Sexism isn't always clearly understood, and the term is used inappropriately at times. One clear simple example of sexism is the not uncommon situation in which a women receives lower compensation for a job than a man, even when they both do the exact same job.

Sexism is also expressed structurally in society when certain behavioral attributes (for example, having multiple sexual partners), are considered acceptable for a male, but are socially frowned upon when the same social mores are applied to a female. This creates what many refer to as a double standard, one which coluld be viewed as sexist.

There are many websites and blogs which discuss sexism from a feminist perspective. Some good examples are Angry Black Bitch, where you'll see commentary on the Lily Ledbetter Free Pay Act, and Feministing, which takes a lighter more pop culture look at issues, often invovling sexism, on a daily basis. 

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sexism”

• Odds and ends for 11/20

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  Huge win for the good guys, by which I mean taxpayers: House Finance Committee overwhelmingly and with true bipartisan support votes to audit the Fed . Barney Frank, previously a supporter, voted against. He’s going to need a damn good explanation. Welcome to the 21st century, beehortches: Muslims want an ...
  11 hours ago

• Where are the Women? The Staff and Advisors of “Media Matters for America” Remain Overwhelmingly Male

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 138
  The list is here . I (quickly) counted 38 men and 15 women, meaning the list is about 72% male and 28% female. Same old, same old . –Ann Bartow
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• Video of Chris Matthews: Palin Supporters Racist — ‘White vs. Other People’

  
  theblogprof — Authority: 679
  The Democrat party is always good for a laugh. The party that separates people by skin pigmentation, age, race, gender - identity politics - is also inflicted with a terminal mental case of projection. Here is confirmed sexist Chris Matthews, who also suffers from Palin Derangement Syndrome, telling his viewers that ...
  16 hours ago

• Is Newsweek’s cover of Palin in short shorts sexist?

  
  The-F-Word.org — Authority: 466
  Even I was kind of shocked by Newsweek’s cover this week of Sarah Palin — not for the image used, which on first glance seemed both puzzling and irrelevant, but for the blatantly biased headline of “How do you solve a problem like Sarah?  She’s bad news for the GOP — and for everybody else, [...]
  19 hours ago

• SILENT PROTEST OF R. KELLY IN WASHINGTON, DC. - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  
  Black Sapience...My .02 — Authority: 92
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PROTESTERS TO GREET R. KELLY ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT DURING D.C. CONCERT AT DAR CONSTITUTION HAL WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 20, 2009 - When popular R& B crooner R. Kelly hits the stage at the DAR Constitution Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday night he may hit a sour note with a group ...
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• Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s Cinematographer Roundtable

  
  Women & Hollywood — Authority: 591
  I guess I should thank the Hollywood Reporter for making my job easy this week by providing me with such blatantly sexist material. They posted their conversation with cinematographers and SURPRISE there is not a single woman included. I know that they do these around awards season and NOT A SINGLE WOMAN has ever ...
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• The (se)X Factor.

  
  Uplift Magazine — Authority: 423
  I’m not one of these television elitists who thinks the only things worth watching are David Attenborough documentaries and perhaps the news at ten.Nor am I a music snob who bemoans the insurgence of tv talent show searching for the UK’S  next big pop star.Okay, okay, I’ll just come right out and say it- ...
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• “Rampant ugliness makes men cost-inefficient for beauty contests”

  
  Faking News — Authority: 428
  New York, USA. The movement to allow men to participate in beauty pageants received a deadly blow today when Miss Universe Organization outrightly rejected the demand citing cost-ineffectiveness of the idea. The organization believes that men are born ugly and it would amount to a huge waste of money and resources if ...
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• Richard Stallman: For Avoidance of Misunderstandings

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 160
  "Some of the people in the audience in my speech in the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit thought that my joke about the Virgin of Emacs was intended to make some kind of statement about women. I was surprised by that reaction..."
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• The Problem Of The Oblivious White Male Skeptic? A Response To Pharyngula And SkeptiFem

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 473
  Firstly, I’d like to thank both PZ Myers and ‘SkeptiFem’ for inspiring what I think I’ll present upon at a conference next year. I think I have something to say on this topic, which is clearly of interest to people. I’ve written about women and skeptics before (in fact, Feministing even responded to ...
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• Beyond the pale

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 545
  Trying not to take this personally ...
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• What if ….? Short Takes 11/19/09

  
  Professor, What If...? — Authority: 104
  As life and other projects are drastically reducing my blog-time here at Prof What if ? I have decided to start posting some short takes consisting of brief musings on recent news and events. Kind of like tweets I suppose, but I have not dipped into that world yet. Maybe soon.  Can someone as verbose and opinionated ...
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• RIP Stephanie Spielman, wife of Chris (of OSU/NFL), mother of four, SBE diagnoser at 30 years old

  
  Writes Like She Talks — Authority: 503
  See – these are the stories that I dread, that other women who are unhappy with the new guideline recommendation about breast cancer screening dread.  That, under the new recommendations, a 30 year old woman will either not perform self-breast examinations and therefore have something with which they can go to a ...
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• Taxing Elective Plastic Surgery is a Good Idea

  
  American Reality — Authority: 136
  The Senate’s health care reform bill calls for a five percent tax on elective plastic surgery and cosmetic treatments. In this article, plastic surgeons do their best to try and argue against the proposal. The amount of sexism in their language is striking and demonstrates not only how they market their services, ...
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• Deus Sex Machina

  
  Women's Bioethics Blog — Authority: 100
  (cross-posted on Sentient Developments ) (Roughly translated from Latin as Sex God in the machine) We all know that technology can improve our lives (sometimes....well, at least when its working properly), but whod have thunk that nanotechnology could improve your sex life? In yet one more tool in the arsenal ...
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• Sexual Violence: Big Problem, You-and-Me Solution

  
  Aristotle's Feminist Subject — Authority: 494
  "It is a mens issue because 95 percent of sexual violence is conducted by men," explained Rebecca Alexander, OASIS program coordinator of the ETSU Counseling Center. --Heres more at John Shucks blog , Shuck and Jive . "We live in a rape culture in which men (especially straight, cis men) are socialized and ...
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• Putting Sarah Palin and Sexism in Perspective

  
  Fem2pt0 : societys issues + womens voices — Authority: 113
  If the story of Sarah Palin teaches us anything about sexism, it is that its impact can always be more complicated than we think. Out of context, Newsweek’s cover image of the former Alaska governor in jogging shorts ( which they have refused to apologize for ) is completely inappropriate. But Palin’s new book and ...
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• Retro-sexist

  
  Spin and Spinners — Authority: 117
  A small number of people have complained about the M&S Christmas ad, in which actor Philip Glenister enthuses over a model in her underwear. But A spokesman for Marks and Spencer said: "Were surprised by the ASA complaints regarding Philip Glenisters appearance in our TV ad. "Our research shows that his ...
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• Imagine that!

  
  Nailing Jello to the Wall — Authority: 130
  The Huffington Post has never had any love for Hillary Clinton, as a Clinton supporter in the primaries I can vouch for that. So I really wouldn’t expect them to report on Clinton’s Vogue interview without some titillating “angle.” But still:And the feature, which appears in the magazine’s December issue, ...
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• Sounding the Alarm... AGAIN! PROTEST AGAINST R. KELLY IN WASHINGTON, DC

  
  Black Sapience...My .02 — Authority: 92
  So it been a few months since my last post and ironically the 2 year anniversary of a Counter Protest I launched in response to Al-Sharptons do-nothingness about the Dunbar Village Rape tragedy . The theme of the protest was so much bigger than Als fat ass though. I, like many of you who read this blog (or used to ...
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