Concept
Sexism
Overview
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to gender roles and stereotypes, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Discrimination in this context is defined as discrimination toward people based on their gender identity or their gender or sex differences. Sexism refers to violation of equal opportunities (formal equality) based on gender or refers to violation of equality of outcomes based on gender, also called substantive equality. Sexism may arise from social or cultural customs and norms.
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This unity of its being in all its phenomena, this unchangeable constancy of the appearance of these, whenever, under the guidance of causality, the necessary conditions are present, is called a _law of nature_. If such a law is once learned from experience, then the phenomenon of that force of nature, the character of which is expressed and laid down in it, may be accurately forecast and counted upon.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
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(The right of the first occupant.) Whereas the sufferings of others, caused by our injustice and violence, enter the consciousness indirectly, that is, by the secondary channel of a mental picture, and not till they are understood by experience. Thus Seneca (_Ep._ 50) says: _Ad neminem ante bona mens venit, quam mala_. (Good feelings never come before bad ones.) In its first degree, therefore, Compassion opposes and…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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The negative effect on feeling (unpleasantness) is pathological, like every influence on feeling and like every feeling generally. But as an effect of the consciousness of the moral law, and consequently in relation to a supersensible cause, namely, the subject of pure practical reason which is the supreme lawgiver, this feeling of a rational being affected by inclinations is called humiliation (intellectual…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
States what Sexism is.
Philosophers who discussed Sexism
- Feminism
- Jean Baudrillard
- Richard Dawkins
- Martha Nussbaum
- Colin McGinn
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Frantz Fanon
- Val Plumwood
Related ideas
- Manchester University Press
- Egalitarianism
- The Independent
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- French language
- BBC News
- Early modern Europe
- German language
- Harvard University Press
- Hindus
- Human rights
- India
- Women's rights
- Judith Butler
- Queer theory
- Human sexuality
- David Benatar
- Random House
- Literacy
- Latin America
- Philosophy & Public Affairs
- Ethiopia
- Middle Ages
- Autonomy
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.