A 29-year-old passenger was arrested after allegedly refusing to sit beside a woman, citing Sharia law, before assaulting a flight attendant on a flight to Düsseldorf.
This is an extreme level of sexist discrimination, that goes against fundamental values of a modern democracy.
Well that escalated quickly. More seriously, while the man in the OP is definitely entitled, what he wanted was not inherently sexist. Having strict beliefs about cross-gender contact can lead to sexism, but isn’t that in and of itself. Most cultures out there put some limit on what unrelated men and women can do or where they can be together, and those limits can be fairly benign as long as they don’t lead people to do things like assault flight attendants.
If you’re choosing to do or not do something with someone because of their sex/gender it’s sexist. Simple as that. I don’t care if those beliefs are due to religion or not.
That must be quite the surprise to people who only enter romantic relationships with the sex they’re attracted to.
More seriously, sexism is specifically prejudice based on sex, and it’s bad for obvious reasons (the fact that it causes harm to the sex suffering from such prejudice). If you want to expand the definition to include “choosing to do or not do something with someone because of their sex/gender” (we’ll call this sexism+) you’ll have to argue that sexism+ is rooted in regular sexism. This isn’t something you can just assume (well you can, but what can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence).
Well that escalated quickly. More seriously, while the man in the OP is definitely entitled, what he wanted was not inherently sexist. Having strict beliefs about cross-gender contact can lead to sexism, but isn’t that in and of itself. Most cultures out there put some limit on what unrelated men and women can do or where they can be together, and those limits can be fairly benign as long as they don’t lead people to do things like assault flight attendants.
If you’re choosing to do or not do something with someone because of their sex/gender it’s sexist. Simple as that. I don’t care if those beliefs are due to religion or not.
That must be quite the surprise to people who only enter romantic relationships with the sex they’re attracted to.
More seriously, sexism is specifically prejudice based on sex, and it’s bad for obvious reasons (the fact that it causes harm to the sex suffering from such prejudice). If you want to expand the definition to include “choosing to do or not do something with someone because of their sex/gender” (we’ll call this sexism+) you’ll have to argue that sexism+ is rooted in regular sexism. This isn’t something you can just assume (well you can, but what can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence).