Benevolent sexism

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'Hey, good job,' or 'quick thinking,' or 'I can tell you worked hard on that report, thanks,' accompanied by a nod or a handshake, are all welcomed by most women and men alike in the workplace or school.

Women are not "creatures." We're humans, just like men are, and we're no more likely to smell good or bad than men are. If we're hard to understand, it's because humans are complex and hard to understand, men no less than women.

More like putting her on a very narrow pedestal.

Before I get convicted of sexism once again:



Under Definition 2.b.: both men and women are creatures.

And, thanks for providing another example of Feminists getting overly-sensitive about words.

Yeah. I don't know what to make of all these non-weird, non-silly people who show up from time to time on WrongPlanet. Maybe some of them are neurotypical T-words, out for a laugh?

Please proceed.

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AP, read that whole definition please, and repeat that I'm being over-sensitive. The word is rarely used to mean 'human.'

People have to make a positive effort to avoid perpetuating sexist stereotypes through commonly accepted language. This condition even effects professional wordsmiths, as shown in the Coverage of Mary Barra's Appointment as CEO of General Motors:

None of the language that the stories use is uncommon, it just isn't commonly applied to men.


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Done.


You're being over-sensitive.


I concede that the word would rarely be used in Feminist literature to mean "human." However, the dictionary does not characterize definition 2.b. as a "rare" use of the word. Hence, using the word "creature" to mean "a human" is a perfectly legitimate use of the word. Moreover, as humans are a subset of living beings, we would also fit under definition 2.a., being land creatures. And, creationists regard us as having been created (definition 1). Thus, humans fall within most of the definition of the word "creature."

They're talking about CEOs, who are the scum of the Earth to begin with. I'm not going to cry any tears over anyone making a less-than-fawning assessment of a CEO, whether male or female.

Way to completely ignore my point about language, AP, and go off on a tangent with zero relevance to the topic at hand!

*Chuckles* So, feeding the troll?

*Chuckles* So, feeding the troll?

You think that a CEO shouldn't be subjected to criticism, or perhaps to certain types of criticism, by virtue of being female. You are demanding chivalry and sexism, but on your own terms.

She's a damned CEO, and a public figure. She can take it.

Incorrect, I don't think that a woman should be subjected to particular criticisms that are applied exclusively to women, even if she is a damned CEO. If the journalists making those criticisms provided any evidence of a basis for them, that would be an affirmative defense, but AFAIK they did not.

Being a public figure certainly makes criticism appropriate, but not falsehoods, and especially not falsehoods based on stereotypes about their basic qualities. It's a brief article, and your arguments might make more sense if you actually read it.

As far as you know. You didn't read the articles to which your over-sensitive looking-to-be-offended Feminist author was referring.



You don't know if they were falsehoods. They might have been truehoods.

In the case of Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), the Supreme Court basically established that you can make patently false statements about public figures and get away with it.



Certainly falsehoods based on stereotypes about Jerry Falwell's basic qualities were used in this piece. Why shouldn't female public figures be subject to similar treatment? Because the Feminist Code of Chivalry would be violated?

Fox "News" makes patently false statements all of the time, and they get away with it.