Reply #112: So then that means all the self-proclaimed female feminist

[bigbillhaywood]

posters on the board that said they have little or no problem with the word are actually sexist, but just don't realize it?

I think it's possible to say black oppression and female oppression are both pervasive, while acknowledging that the circumstances and histories are different and without saying one is worse than the other. I think that you can also acknowledge that these words have different histories and evoke tangibly different responses by their intended targets. In other words, the words do not carry the same weight, even if the respective traditions of bigotry from which they derive is more or less equal.