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Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount



On 2008-11-23, Miriam Ruiz <miriam@debian.org> wrote:
>> Please quote from the original email explaining to me how it is sexist.
>
> Sexism defines the ideology of male supremacy, of male superiority and
> of beliefs that support and sustain it.  Sexism and patriarchy
> mutually reinforce one another
> http://www.ruralwomyn.net/define.html#sexism
>
> A social relationship in which males have authority over females.
> www.personal.utulsa.edu/~lara-foley/definitions.htm
>
> Sexism: An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on
> the social construction of gender difference Sexism was developed to
> claim superiority of men over women, based on the idea that "natural"
> gender norms are a fixed and immutable reality.
> http://www.publiceye.org/glossary/glossary_big.html#s

Isn't these definitions quite gynocentric and androphobic?

/Sune
 - who is learning new words today.


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