Growing Independence

Re:Growing Independence by gowld on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:53PM (#23469526)

There's some subtle sexism in that story.

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Re:Growing Independence by dang on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:48PM (#23470130)

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23468960.

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Re:Growing Independence by leetcrew on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:09PM (#23470323)

from the original context, I'm guessing your comment is referring to this excerpt:

> She wandered a bit with me until she identified someone who I think she thought was sufficiently non-threatening (middle-aged woman hanging out with family) and Lily asked me if I would be willing to ask on her behalf.

is it really sexism (subtle or otherwise) for the author to give his best guess as to the state of mind of his daughter at the time? or are we passing judgment on the possible motivations of a six-year-old girl?

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Re:Growing Independence by champagneben on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:29PM (#23469938)

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. If the text had said white person, it would have obviously been racist.

Perhaps because sexism in this instance is completely acceptable? I'm not objecting to that, by the way.

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Re:Growing Independence by jasonv on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:45PM (#23470098)

My family watches CinemaSins. Instances of racial depictions are often tagged with a verbal, "That's racist!" when, sometimes, it's "race-ial" content or even the mere mention of race. "-ist/-ism" usually connotes negative orientations, or heavily biased presentations.

Can't imagine how to navigate this these days, but maybe there's a layer between.

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