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There’s a great post at Tomorrow Museum declaring The End of Sexism. It’s a bit of a manifesto, actually, the point being that there are no excuses, other than outright stupidity, for sexist behavior.

I agree and disagree at the same time. Based on reactions to valid claims of sexism in technology (I’m looking at you, IT) and politics, I think that a disturbing number of people are unwilling to acknowledge that there is a problem. It’s too big to even see—unless you’re looking for it, and then it’s everywhere.

So we are in a strange place: the majority have agreed for a long time that sexism is bad, the enlightened are adopting a zero-tolerance policy, but the male-dominated, mainstream everything is still completely oblivious to the issue.