Women’s issues have dominated the news these past few months with reproductive health becoming the cornerstone of an argument many of us thought had been put to bed decades ago. We’ve seen Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem calling for Rush Limbaugh to be booted off the airwaves for his sexist hate speech against Sandra Fluke and sat in front of our televisions while the Republican candidates debate the use of birth control as if it is solely a women’s issue. And throughout all of this we’ve been hearing one very obvious statement. Sexism is bad for women.
But there is a crucial factor in this conversation about gender and women’s rights that continues to be ignored; (more…)
Cara Hoffman
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10 ways to know if you are sexistMarch 10, 2012 
2. You use the words “traditional” or “traditional values” to describe beliefs or attitudes about sex and gender that are now medically and scientifically disproven, or when referring to a time when institutional misogyny made restrictions on an individual’s behavior in domestic or public life 3. You believe people who have different genitals from your own have (more…) |
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