So the other day two people in a group chat am in disagreed on a certain topic and before we knew it, words were flying here and there and we were hooked! Can you blame us? Who doesn't like group chat drama, lol.
All through the words exchange, oohh did l mention it was between a man and a woman? Anyways, the man kept starting his chats with "dude" to reply to the woman and the fight then shifted to how the man was personally assigning a gender to the woman that she didn't identify with, that you rather call people "they" than assigning them a gender.
In the man's defence, he said he didn't know the gender of the other person plus her username didn't give off her gender so he used dude because and l quote "in these times even with the numerous gender definitions, l still see everybody as one, l don't see gender".
That quoted statement up there opened a fuel tank of emotions and words we had not seen for the day 😂. The other person came out to say how sexist that was, and a number of females also come up to convict the man of sexism, lol. This left me wondering whether feminists know what exactly they are fighting for. Don't get me wrong l am all for gender equality which l presume makes me a feminist but could we have lost sight of what we expect from this battle?
That man saying he sees the world as one, to me depicted he saw all genders equal but how "feminists" interpreted that as sexism is what l still don't understand up till now.
We didn't have a q&a session after but l wish such matters could be followed up next time😂.
Anyways what do you understand by the term "sexism" okay in a lay man's understanding because at this point l don't trust the Google definition. And in your gender equality knowledge, what do you think was wrong with the man's reply?
