Explaining "Sexism" and "Racism" To a Third-Wave Feminist SJW

The whole point of a word like "sexism" is to categorize:

a parallel to racism
based on sex instead of skin-color or ethnicity.

Racism is either:
a.) internally harbored
or
b.) expressed (via words, or via other actions).

Racism refers any prejudice against a person based on skin-color (mostly as being associated with an ethnicity) or (more directly) ethnicity.

The term "racism" can also be used to refer to prejudice against any human social demographic.

Example:
In a song, Lily Allen described Abrahamic religious fundamentalists as "some racist who can't tie my laces", when referring to anti-gay preachments.


Although, typically, the term "racism" refers only to color or ethnicity. It applies to anyone (at all) who harbors or expresses (via word or action) a prejudice against someone based on this.

This would apply equally to anyone who takes either side of prejudice in a black vs white polemic.

Likewise, the term "sexism" refers to anyone takes either side of prejudice in a men vs women polemic.
 Although, the meaning of this term is currently expanding to include a diverse range of ideas about gender identity. 

We hear about it more often when people talk about sexism against women.
That's because our society(ies) haven't yet finished outgrowing ancient patriarchal ways of thinking about women and (as a result) ways of treating women.
But just like "reverse racism" is still racism, ... "reverse sexism" is still sexism.

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