sexist
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Clips of his comment circulated widely on social media as if it were an allusion to abuse, and Flavio Bolsonaro accused Lula of being "sexist."
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Are we meant to be tough but sensitive, tough but insensitive, or sensitive but sexist?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Singh carefully notes modern Punjabi music has reproduced sexist tropes and reinforced traditional norms around gender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Denford’s mission is to interrupt the spinning vortex of negativity in which the world is caught by redirecting our energy instead of contributing one more fiery rebuttal to sexist idiocy.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
My sister made some remark about how cheerleading is stupid and sexist, and my brother told her to shut up.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
The performer has just tried out for a role as the first major gay superhero in a Hollywood feature, an avenger “who fights racists, sexists and homophobes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
She embodied the reality, confounding to sexists, that a woman who looked like her could be a radical egalitarian about gender.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
“Because they were. Or sexists, because they were. The law they drafted promises equal protection of the laws to all persons. That’s what they wrote.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
"Publications around the world are closing comment sections because they don't want to spend the money to edit out the haters, racists, sexists and the uniformed and frightened," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2015
And I don’t mean to say the world is filled with racists or sexists or homophobes.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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