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From: Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Sexism (against women)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 11:46:36 GMT
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mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) writes:

>A very simple (series of) question(s):
>How much sexism (against women) do people perceive there to be
>nowadays?

Lots.

> What form does it take?

Unthinking assumptions about appropriate behaviour patterns in
various circumstances, be they social, academic, business,
political, etc. etc.

>What kinds of people perpetrate it?

Almost everyone who is unaware of the problem, unless they have
been in an environment where such behavioural differences did
not exist. (!!!)  Almost everyone who is aware of the problem,
because they are consciously trying to reject their first,
learned reaction, and then trying not to over-react, and then
trying not to over-over-react...  For most people, however,
at each stage the damage/difference in the resulting behaviour
is less.

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