Meaning of postsexist | Babel Free

Definitions

After the decline of sexism

not-comparable

Examples

“It's also notably different from defiantly politically incorrect humor, which revels in its flirting with racism and sexism in the name⟳ of free speech, but doesn't argue⟳ or imply that we live⟳ in a postracist or postsexist world.”

“In the case of Star Trek particularly, its creator, Gene Roddenberry, conceived of a series that imagined a social world that expressed ideals of a postracist, postsexist, post⟳ religious (and implicitly postcapitalist) and peaceful earth governed by a unitary government, conditions that dif not exist⟳ in Roddenberry's lifetime and do not exist⟳ today.”

“And part of what grounds the possibility of the joke being presumed to be “post-sexist” or “ironic” are national identity claims about Canada being a nation of equality between the sexes (even in the face⟳ of continuing gendered inequality).”

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