Meanings
- not comparableAfter the decline of sexism
It's also notably different from defiantly politically incorrect humor, which revels in its flirting with racism and sexism in the name of free speech, but doesn't argue or imply that we live in a postracist or postsexist world.
2006, Lisa Jervis, BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, page 3232 more examples
In the case of Star Trek particularly, its creator, Gene Roddenberry, conceived of a series that imagined a social world that expressed ideals of a postracist, postsexist, post religious (and implicitly postcapitalist) and peaceful earth governed by a unitary government, conditions that dif not exist in Roddenberry's lifetime and do not exist today.
2012, Peter Robson, Law and Justice on the Small ScreenAnd part of what grounds the possibility of the joke being presumed to be “post-sexist” or “ironic” are national identity claims about Canada being a nation of equality between the sexes (even in the face of continuing gendered inequality).
2015, Lynda Mannik, Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation
Origin
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