Sexism vs Null - What's the difference?
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The belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to people of the other sex or gender.
Different treatment or discrimination based on a difference of sex or gender.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 14
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism
, work=Guardian
Disadvantage or unequal opportunity arising from the cultural dominance of one gender over the other.
Promotion or expectation or assumption of people to behave in accordance with or deviate from a gender role.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between sexism and null
is that sexism is the belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to people of the other sex or gender while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sexism
English
(wikipedia sexism)Noun
- The notion that either gender is superior is sexism .
- The fact that there is only one woman in a management position in that company makes it easy to believe that sexism runs rampant there.
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- In order to succeed in fashion, men generally must acquire various feminine traits, which only points out the underlying sexism .
- Hollywood contributes to sexism in our society by making and promoting violent films for men and romantic comedies for women.
Coordinate terms
* ableism * ageism * alphabetism * bigotry * chauvinism * evaluativism * misogyny * misandry * discrimination * heterosexism * homophobia * racism * religionism English words suffixed with -ismnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
