Shaming men for not being "manly"

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3. My husband is watching Jeopardy.

There was a question about about 'being disgusted with he Vulgate, this person took 'group of virgins' to Antioch'' ( total paraphrase)!!!

I said to my husband-see the sexism there? He said "No". I said "they just referred to a number of women as 'virgins'-- not human beings, not even women virgins"--the answer, Jerome, is a long and interesting story (wiki is shitty on this one)

But I used the example to point out that no one would think it's a big deal to refer to a group of women this way, that their essential virginity was more important than their essential humanness--not back then, although that may be true-- but today, in a bland, inoffensive game show. My husband is always open to these conversations, and had a "oh yeah" moment. I said it happens all the time. He said give me another example. I immediately said 'women drivers'--he stopped doing that years ago, because I asked him " what do you call bad male drivers, besides "motherfuckers or something? They get a gender pass?

This happens thousand of times in our language, essentially people just don't think about it. Probably why it gets worse and worse-- to 'other' women even further. Again the commercial tie, which is by no means the only tie.