SEXIST


Meaning of SEXIST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a racist/sexist remark (= an offensive remark showing racist/sexist attitudes )

The men are accused of making racist remarks to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare.

When faced with a sexist remark, women have to either confront the person or ignore it.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

language

As feminists resist sexist language , so many speakers have resisted the alternative.

Firstly, I understand that you must edit letters, but the crucial point on avoiding sexist language was omitted.

Even if women are legally entitled to equality, sexist language still activates and re-circulates deeply held beliefs about female inequality.

Is sexist language just an offensive reminder of the way the culture sees women, as nonentities and scapegoats?

But there is no excuse for modern hymns to contain gender-based or sexist language .

A particularly important division is between those who regard sexist language as a symptom and those who regard it as a cause.

Feminism's objections to sexist language have been much parodied.

For them, the major problem with sexist language is that it is outdated.

remark

I know it is a terribly sexist remark but I do think of the machines in our first workshop as old ladies.

I had made some silly sexist remark , and Caroline convinced them I was dangerous.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

My ex-husband was a real sexist , who didn't think our daughters should have jobs at all.

She vows to continue her fight against those she calls 'the racists and sexists who dominate the church'.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A new female editor found it sexist .

And, of course, he was a sexist .

Come on, Jack, don't be sexist .

Farrakhan has long been controversial for remarks that many consider anti-Semitic, racist and sexist .

I also don't mean to be sexist because the same scenario works when the sexes are reversed.

Once again we see here that contradictoriness is no barrier to the maintenance of sexist stereotypes.

These studies concentrated on images of women, a type of criticism which views films as cultural forms imbued with sexist ideology.

Very sexist of you to assume otherwise, if I may say so.

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