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Philosophy and Feminism
Assignment 1: Case Study
Binh P. H Tran – Nick
“Women cannot be sexist. Only men can be sexist because they are the privileged group�
This is one of the statements my boss made, when I first started working in the Multicultural Information. Even though I did not say so, I did have serious doubt. Can a woman be sexist? What, exactly, is sexual discrimination? The fact is indisputable that men are generally treated better than women. They are better paid for the same amount of work. They don’t have the same social pressure to be submissive. However, they can certainly be oppressed. Minority men have certainly been and will continue being oppressed. The issue here is that can a man be oppressed by a woman? Consequently, if both sides are equally capable of oppressing each other, is it a fair society?
First of all, to understand these questions, we need to understand the nature of sexism, prejudice or discrimination based on sex and prejudice, an......

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