It’s the sign of the times that a remark by a CEO of an airlines on how it takes a man to do the job immediately ran into rough weather. The opprobrium that followed struck one more blow to the tangled roots of the repugnant, gargantuan form of sexism that for centuries has cast a ever-long, malevolent shadow on the issue of women as equal partners in evolution. The dictionary defines sexism thus: ‘prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex’. While we may not know when this word was born — though we know why it was born — the fact that it is yet an extant word is the blight of the human condition.
But there is hope as this potently punishing decade is proving. The #MeToo movement, to give an example of the latest juggernaut of comeuppance, offers a lesson for all those who continue to uphold the archetype that being female is a synonym for being secondary.
In today’s post-millennial age of realism, and the arrival of the long-awaited ethicism as its collateral, it is becoming increasingly clear that every form of indulgence in the politics of gender, whether by individuals or entities, will deservedly turn into an instrument of self-obliteration.
Even globally acknowledged bastions of propriety and credibility have not been spared the damage in today’s ideological blitzkrieg against sexism, such as when the British Broadcasting Corporation was forced to deal with the issue of equal pay for its male and female employees.
Across the world, the message is clear — sexism has no place to hide any more. It is a denouement whose time has come.
