I have surprised a number of sexist views in my time here. I have had to add "in general" and "in my observation" to a lot of statements I had previously thought to be simply true.
But I never thought I was a sexist because I thought women were by and large better than men... stronger, kinder, more beautiful, more honorable. And they get the accessories! The most important people in my life, for good or ill, were women, while the men were mostly just set-dressing. It's Freud's old Madonna/Whore complex, split across genders: women are deities, men are sex-objects.
However, I have learned that putting women on a pedestal is just as bad as putting them in the gutter: you want to put them at eye level, different but equal to men.
I do have one thing about women that I want to vent, for which I shall quote the ever-quotable Dame Edith Evans: "If a woman acts like a man, why can't she act like a nice man?" But that's not really sexist, because I can turn it around on men who act like the worst sort of woman, too. I loathe them.
But I never thought I was a sexist because I thought women were by and large better than men... stronger, kinder, more beautiful, more honorable. And they get the accessories! The most important people in my life, for good or ill, were women, while the men were mostly just set-dressing. It's Freud's old Madonna/Whore complex, split across genders: women are deities, men are sex-objects.
However, I have learned that putting women on a pedestal is just as bad as putting them in the gutter: you want to put them at eye level, different but equal to men.
I do have one thing about women that I want to vent, for which I shall quote the ever-quotable Dame Edith Evans: "If a woman acts like a man, why can't she act like a nice man?" But that's not really sexist, because I can turn it around on men who act like the worst sort of woman, too. I loathe them.