Granted, this definition does look at men, but only as a sort of reference
OK, thanks for the clarification.
It seems that, like MBlume said, your model is designed to reduce the difference between the benefits provided to men and women.
Yes, insofar as “sexism” is understood as something to be reduced. It’s hard to interpret “sexism in a system is a function of the differential benefits provided to men and women over the system as a whole” any other way, really.
As for the rest of this… yes. And now we’ve come full circle, and I will once again agree (as I did above) that yes, if anyone defined sexism as I model it here and sought only to eliminate sexism, the easiest solution would presumably be to kill everyone. And as I said at the time, the same thing is true of a system seeking to eliminate cancer, but it’s not clear to me that it follows that someone seeking to eliminate cancer is necessarily doing something wrong relative to someone who isn’t seeking to eliminate cancer.
OK, thanks for the clarification.
Yes, insofar as “sexism” is understood as something to be reduced. It’s hard to interpret “sexism in a system is a function of the differential benefits provided to men and women over the system as a whole” any other way, really.
As for the rest of this… yes. And now we’ve come full circle, and I will once again agree (as I did above) that yes, if anyone defined sexism as I model it here and sought only to eliminate sexism, the easiest solution would presumably be to kill everyone. And as I said at the time, the same thing is true of a system seeking to eliminate cancer, but it’s not clear to me that it follows that someone seeking to eliminate cancer is necessarily doing something wrong relative to someone who isn’t seeking to eliminate cancer.