noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a racist/sexist remark (= an offensive remark showing racist/sexist attitudes )
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The men are accused of making racist remarks to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare.
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When faced with a sexist remark, women have to either confront the person or ignore it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
language
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As feminists resist sexist language , so many speakers have resisted the alternative.
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Firstly, I understand that you must edit letters, but the crucial point on avoiding sexist language was omitted.
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Even if women are legally entitled to equality, sexist language still activates and re-circulates deeply held beliefs about female inequality.
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Is sexist language just an offensive reminder of the way the culture sees women, as nonentities and scapegoats?
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But there is no excuse for modern hymns to contain gender-based or sexist language .
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A particularly important division is between those who regard sexist language as a symptom and those who regard it as a cause.
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Feminism's objections to sexist language have been much parodied.
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For them, the major problem with sexist language is that it is outdated.
remark
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I know it is a terribly sexist remark but I do think of the machines in our first workshop as old ladies.
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I had made some silly sexist remark , and Caroline convinced them I was dangerous.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My ex-husband was a real sexist , who didn't think our daughters should have jobs at all.
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She vows to continue her fight against those she calls 'the racists and sexists who dominate the church'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new female editor found it sexist .
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And, of course, he was a sexist .
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Come on, Jack, don't be sexist .
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Farrakhan has long been controversial for remarks that many consider anti-Semitic, racist and sexist .
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I also don't mean to be sexist because the same scenario works when the sexes are reversed.
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Once again we see here that contradictoriness is no barrier to the maintenance of sexist stereotypes.
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These studies concentrated on images of women, a type of criticism which views films as cultural forms imbued with sexist ideology.
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Very sexist of you to assume otherwise, if I may say so.