Action Quote by Cheris Kramarae

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term.…

— Adrienne Rich

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

— Warren Farrell

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

— Andrea Dworkin

“Sexism occurs when we assume that some people are less valid or natural than others because of their sex, gender, or sexuality; it occurs…

— Julia Serano

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

— Margaret Hoover

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

— Anita Sarkeesian

“Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.”

— Bailey Poland

“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and shape how…

— Nick Yee

“Womanism is feminism's vulgate. It asserts that women are the oppressed or the victims and never the collaborators in the 'bad' things that men…

— Rosalind Coward

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

— Gad Saad

“Our whole cultural perception of sexism, as the context in which the majority of gendered violence happens, seems to be understood in the same…

— 404 Ink

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles…

— Bell Hooks