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systemic sexism

The Double Standard of Racism and Sexism …ah, Serena Williams

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I’m not a tennis fan. I have an idea of how to play, even owned a racket once, but I don’t watch it. Until maybe now. Maybe now I need to start watching. Serena Williams has been in the news twice in the last weeks for issues that point out (glaringly, to me) the way racism and sexism play … 

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Systemic “isms”

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Systemic 'isms' are often hard to detect.   Sometimes because we have grown up with these policies, laws, and ways of doing things -  and so don't critique them (like the fact that until 1990 only Canadian women were able to take time off when their children were born). Sometimes because … 

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