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sexism and the equality of persons

This post at Over­com­ing Bias caught my eye the other day: I Am Sex­ist Basi­cally, Robin Han­son points out that a com­mon def­i­n­i­tion and usage of “sex­ism” — hav­ing a “belief or atti­tude that one gen­der or sex is infe­rior to, less com­pe­tent, or less valu­able than the other” is flawed. It makes sci­en­tific obser­va­tion