Sexist/Feminist?

[avenueone]

Still new to this so I was wondering - a friend was talking to me today about male attitudes in her work place - without going into too much detail (unless you want me to) - she referred to herself as sexist - but was she actually being a feminist recognising the attitudes towards her as a women by men in her industry? (When the male mangers come in they undermine the female workers there...in brief.)

On the face of what you are saying, noticing discrimination on grounds of sex would be the managers in question being sexist. I don't see why your friend would think of herself as sexist here.

It's happening a lot now that people try to undermine attacks on discrimination by claiming the person pointing it out is being discriminatory, so it's not that surprising that your friend has internalised this. Feminists get it all the time - 'you're actually the sexist one for generalising about men/trying to have meetings without men/focusing on violence against women instead of campaigning against all violence' (as do people campaigining against any other form of discrimination, such as racism - how many times have we heard privileged white men banging on about the National Black Police Officers' Association being racist etc?). And it's a load of bollocks .

Thanks for the replies - I did say to her I thought she wasn't sexist she was being feminist but thought - I hope I am not wrong. She thought she was sexists as it was the male managers she was having a problem with.