Stop Sexist Remarks

Stop Sexist Remarks: Creating Change One Conversation at a Time is a place for you to share your ideas about how to effectively address sexist remarks. In this section, we describe how to use the blog to share ideas with others and provide some guidance on creating your posts.

You might begin by reviewing our Guidelines for Posting and Site Policies below. Then read about why we created this blog in Why a Blog on Sexist Remarks?

We have created a list of questions under Answering the Tough Questions About Sexist Remarks to get you thinking about how to deal with sexist comments—post your answers under each of those.

Heard a sexist remark by a public official, member of the media, or other person in a position of power or influence? Tell us about it. 

Or, if you are just getting started, you can learn more about how to recognize and respond to sexist remarks—whether directed at you or the women you care about—in Learning to Stop Sexist Remarks: Getting Started.

Then go to Post Your Ideas to share approaches that work for you in responding to sexist remarks. Also check out and respond to our newest posts.

And find out what else you can do to stop sexist remarks in your family, local schools and universities, the media, and elsewhere in Take Action.

Because stopping sexist comments—in a way that helps generate new communication patterns and promotes better understanding between men and women—benefits us all.

Guidelines for Posting

When you post your ideas, please consider the following guidelines: 

1. Keep your post brief. People are drowning in words, and we’d rather they read your entire story than click over to YouTube halfway through. So try to limit your posts to about 400 words.
2. If you are sharing a strategy for responding to sexist remarks, tell us a bit about the situation in which you found the approach to work.
3. We do not post e-mail addresses (though our hosting software will ask for them) or full names to protect the privacy of those posting to the site.
4. We recommend including only your first name with your post to protect your privacy. However, because attitudes about gender equality vary by region, we’d like to know which city and state you are from. If you are from a small town and are concerned that including the town name will identify you, just include your state name. And because people’s experiences in responding to sexist comments may vary by gender, let us know whether you’re a woman or a man.

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Site Policies

We designed this blog to be a safe place where people could share their ideas for stopping sexist remarks. Our premise is that sexist remarks are derogatory and offensive and promote other kinds of sexist behavior. No woman should have to experience them, ever. While useful debate and critique are welcome on this blog, posts reflecting disagreement with that core premise will not appear. 

We also want this blog to be about taking positive action—not simply debating the issues. For those reasons, we have chosen to moderate the blog, screening all comments before they are posted. Our policies on what we will post are as follows:  

1. We do not post comments that are sexist, racist, or homophobic or that personally attack another commenter.
2. The focus of this blog is about how language can be used to hurt or disempower others, and we therefore care a great deal about the tone of what is posted. So please do be nice.
3. Because our goal is to create positive solutions, trolls will be banned from commenting on this site, and we will decide who is a troll.
4. This is a blog for sharing ideas about stopping sexist remarks targeting women. While it is theoretically possible that men could be the objects of sexist remarks, their standing in the culture protects them against the associated negative consequences. If you believe that the use of sexist comments to belittle or disempower men deserves attention, please feel free to start your own blog.
5. We created this blog to collect the wisdom and experience of everyone who visits. It is our goal to integrate your effective strategies into the general text of the blog, whenever possible and appropriate. This will ensure that great ideas survive the inevitable rotation of posts (to the back of the line and into the archive). In all instances, we will note your ideas in the text without attribution to protect your privacy.
6. Because we must approve all comments before posting, there may be a delay before your comment appears. We have the final say over what is posted.

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