sexist
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As the luminous, sweet and steel-spined Doralee, she doesn’t just hold her own, she shines, shattering the same sexist assumptions that often plagued Dolly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Are we meant to be tough but sensitive, tough but insensitive, or sensitive but sexist?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
If the narrative that Gen Z is uniquely progressive were true, we would expect Gen Z–ers to be more progressive than older generations by outright rejecting sexist statements.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2026
In an interview about the deputy leadership contest, BBC Radio 5 Live's Matt Chorley asked Phillipson if she felt she'd been on the on the receiving end of sexist briefings.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Because whatever you’ve heard about the Latin woman needing to be saved from her sexist man is not entirely true.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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
“There are racists, sexists, piggery of various kinds who will say really terrible things. And that is part of the world,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2017
In a new, meticulously researched biography, “A Rather Haunted Life,” Ruth Franklin sets out to rescue Jackson from the sexists and the genre snobs who have consigned her to a dungeon of kooky, spooky middlebrow-ness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
"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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