sexist

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1. Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

   Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist / But you lovely bitches and hoes / Should know I'm trying to correct this

   2008, “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros”, performed by Flight of the Conchords

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   [Sokka (Jack DeSena):] I knew I should've left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up. [Katara (Mae Whitman):] You are the most sexist, immature, nutbrained—I'm embarrassed to be related to you!

   2005 February 21, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Aaron Ehasz, Peter Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg, “The Boy in the Iceberg” (3:32 from the start), in Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 1 (Book One: Water), episode 1, spoken by Sokka and Katara (Jack DeSena and Mae Whitman)

   What was all that about? Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad. 't's a bit sexist, isn't it? Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes? No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!"

   2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2

   A defender of communitarianism might argue that just because extant communitarian theories are sexist, it does not follow that communitarianism is inherently sexist.

   2013, Susan J. Hekman, Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory

   I believe this is the first fairy tale retelling I’ve seen that incorporates the classic version of the text as official propaganda of a fascistically sexist (and homophobic) police state, so that’s an interesting premise to start from.

   2021 October 27, Joe Kessler, “Book Review: Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron”, in The Lesser Joke

plural sexists

1. A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.

   I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos.

   2007, Fran Harris, Will the REAL You Please Stand Up?

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   When you argue […] that since fewer women write good poetry this justifies their total exclusion, you are taking a position analogous to that of the racist—I might call you in this case a "sexist"—who says that since so few Negroes have held positions of importance relative to the majority race, their exclusion from history books is a matter of good judgement rather than discrimination. Both the racist and the sexist are acting as if all that has happened had never happened, and both of them are making decisions and coming to conclusions about someone's value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant.

   1965 November 18, Pauline M. Leet, Women and the Undergraduate, Franklin and Marshall College, page 3

   Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

   2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10