Hopefully a lot of people have gotten their head around the fact that only people who experience Xism are qualified to say if something is Xist or not.
I actually disagree with this strongly. There is certainly an argument for saying that only the individual can say whether something is personally insulting/abusive/discriminatory.* But the thing is that different people who experience Xism are going to have different views of it. So how can you define Xism as anything but how society overall views it? Of course this doesn't give me a right to personally say whether something in general is Xist, but in this case no individual can. But I can certainly say that I feel that someone is being cruely Xist towards me, even if society doesn't agree.
* Though at this point there comes the question of whether society is allowed to have certain expectations of how sensitive the average person is. Am I allowed to think someone to be an over-sensitive wimp if they aren't to takee the amount of criticism I think is reasonable and fair?
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I actually disagree with this strongly. There is certainly an argument for saying that only the individual can say whether something is personally insulting/abusive/discriminatory.* But the thing is that different people who experience Xism are going to have different views of it. So how can you define Xism as anything but how society overall views it? Of course this doesn't give me a right to personally say whether something in general is Xist, but in this case no individual can. But I can certainly say that I feel that someone is being cruely Xist towards me, even if society doesn't agree.
* Though at this point there comes the question of whether society is allowed to have certain expectations of how sensitive the average person is. Am I allowed to think someone to be an over-sensitive wimp if they aren't to takee the amount of criticism I think is reasonable and fair?