Last week a female friend was getting ready for a night out. She was taking an age and I said "Typical Woman, never ready on time".
She took offence to this. Commenting that if woman was replaced by black person then it would be unacceptable.
My argument with her was Racism and Sexism cannot be directly compared. I said it's okay to have female only toilets, hospital ward, gyms at certain times, charity events, even music festivals etc etc. Female only spaces are seen as important.
However, the idea of having toilets only for black people, gyms times for black people or large national charity events were black people were only allowed to take part in would make people uncomfortable.
AIBU to think to directly compare racism to sexism in the way she did is simplistic and inaccurate.
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Mengog · 29/05/2015 12:34
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