ext_12141 ([identity profile] rilina.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rj_anderson 2005-09-04 12:06 pm (UTC)

To be sexist implies that you consider all of the people of one sex to be a particular way, weaker, vainer, or simply different in some particular way.

I have to strongly disagree. To use an extreme example, say there is a man who says, "I think all women in the world except, say, my mother is a vain, technologically inept idiot who has no value except as a receptacle for bearing children." Does not having that misogynist opinion about one person make him any less of a misogynist? No.

Yes, an accusation of misogynism has to be based on a general trend in someone's behavior, not a single isolated example. But Susan is not, by any means, a single isolated example. Consider what [livejournal.com profile] synaesthete7 herself has said about "The Shoddy Lands"; consider what other posters here have said about the portrayal of women in other works of Lewis's fiction, perhaps most strikingly in That Hideous Strength.

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