No such thing as reverse sexism, only Sexism.
Sorry, poor choice of words on my part, but you take my meaning.
I never claimed that all sexism is gone. I'm just saying that you depict a much bleaker picture than it really is.
If you remember, I was responding to the post (below) which implied that nobody believed any of Thomas Aquinas's ideas on women anymore...
I don't see a reason to get mad at someone who lived 800 years ago and that no reasonable people believes anymore
...especially the stuff about women being passive, inferior, and not as good at thinking. I was trying to point out that there ARE still people, and plenty of them, that at least act as if that's true.
Your use of the word "you" in all caps here disturbs me. Perhaps you had your tongue in your cheek. And I would point out that there is a "pervasive" and totally unsubtle "presence that is influencing the way that YOU think and act, and you should be aware of it."
I type in All Caps when I want a word to stand out. It's easier than bold or italics, which you can't always trust in emails and text files.
Of course I'm being influenced by the media, everybody is, and that's my point. The popular media is teaching and reinforcing the sexist ideas of years past, as well as the current anti-male stuff that's becoming more and more prevalent. I wanted to show that these ideas are alive and well in the world today, and that saying that no resonable person believes them anymore is shutting your eyes to reality.
Of course, my examples were extreme and exaggerated. That was also part of my point. I wanted to show the absolute worst I could come up with on short notice, to show that there are reasonable people who are saying and doing these kinds of things, and it's not as isolated as we'd all like to believe.
I know that sexism is not as bad as it once was, just as racism seems to be getting better in the big picture, but there is still work to do... and to use another extreme and likely inflammitory statement, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."