| Osc89 said:
That is quite an outdated view. I'll think you'll find that marketing is moving away from the idea of targeting specific genders. One recent example is Toys R Us doing it for their toys: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/toys-r-us-to-stop-marketing-its-toys-by-gender-in-wake-of-sexism-claims-8798959.html Racism is a broad term, and can refer to people categorised by culture, ethnicity, genetics, geography and lots of other things. Making a generalisation of any nationality is racism. I don't know whether he was making an absolute statement or not, which is why I said it "can also be seen as sexist" rather than "is sexist". |
Maybe I should't direct this at you, but whatever.
Racism and sexism are both umbrella terms with no inherent meaning attached to them whatsoever any longer. The only reason they are used is because one gets the feeling that, whatever they mean, it is something bad. It relates on an emotional, not rational level, and places the user on an imaginary higher moral ground. So by definition you are prancing around calling things sexist purely on an emotional level and barely giving any reason besides a subjective standpoint on how things should be.
Either way, that sort of social engineering is easily being trumped in the long term by the demographic shift. Like a memetic virus, is inherent falsehood (search youtube for "brainwashing Norway") can't stand the test of time - take advantage you are already on Youtube and saerch for a few interviews with Eric Kaufmann, or similar scholars of political demography.
