5 Responses to Sexism That Just Make Everything Worse
The worst response to sexism is of course to brush it off or cheer it on or suggest that it is somehow “over”; let that not be in doubt. But as good as it would feel to go off on a jeremiad about such things, it’s likely going to be more productive to focus on what we the non-sociopaths are doing when faced with the depressingly ongoing issue of people treating others based on a few trivial anatomical differences. Like all problems, it persists because the majority of people are not doing enough to combat it, so what could we the majority be doing better? A lot, probably. Because so often our reactions when faced with sexism are a Pogo paradox-style causality loop of inadvertently making the problem worse.
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