The Primary Cause Of Sexism

It is easy to see that tensions between men and women as a whole are high in American culture despite the steady progress of genuine egalitarianism.  A common reaction to this is to avoid directly addressing issues involving sexism towards either gender, which reveals either apathy towards truth or an unwillingness to stand with controversial truths.  There is no shortage of claims about the origins or motivating factors behind sexism, with both prominent political factions remaining largely ignorant about the actual foundation of sexism.

Sexism against both men and women has been practiced for so long that it has become regarded as a necessary component of a healthy civilization according to conservatives, while liberals tend to misdefine the term sexism to only apply when discrimination is directed towards women.  Both major sociopolitical groups respond to sexism in deeply problematic ways.  Consequently, both of these ideological groups contribute directly to the unease of the general public when issues of gender are brought up.  It is not as if political parties are the primary cause of sexism, though.

Tensions between many men and women are ultimately high simply because there are very few genuine rationalists: all but a small number are adrift in assumptions, fallacies, or apathy.  In other words, the vast majority of people in any documented society are inept thinkers at best.  The fundamental reason why so many people, inside and outside of the church, adhere to any ideology that even slightly discriminates against men or women except when physical biology is concerned is that thorough stupidity is the norm.  Sexism does not primarily exist due to spiritual warfare, as some Christians might assumptively suggest, nor does it primarily survive due to politics (though both main parties are often deeply sexist).  Human stupidity is enough to preserve the power of any error.

Any man or woman who supports, practices, or trivializes sexism even after correction has forfeited any right to be treated as an intellectual equal.  I do not say this first and foremost because the Bible so clearly opposes broad and specific manifestations of sexism, although the metaphysical foundations of Christian ethics as found in Genesis and in the details of Mosaic Law do strongly oppose sexism, but I instead say it firstly because any claim about psychological traits being tied to one's physical gender are inherently fallacious and false to begin with.  Morally prescriptive claims based on stereotypes are erroneous by default even apart from the non sequiturs involved in them.

The solution to sexism, as well as to any other societal problem, is not tolerance or the kind of hypocrisy displayed by theological conservatives and liberals.  Only rationalism can rescue a society from its simplest and most severe fallacies alike; there is no point to treating anyone who rejects rationalism as if they could possibly be worthy of any sort of intellectual attention beyond refutation or mockery.  Even Christianity and its blatant egalitarianism are secondary to the necessary truths of reason, and Christians who identify as egalitarians need to ensure that they do not largely blame sexism against men or women on something other than unrejected fallacies and assumptions.  The stereotypes and double standards of sexism are irrational before they are Biblically immoral.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful.