This forces those individual men who buy into the sex role to ignore their own individuality and try to live up to some personality traits that may just not be a good fit for them, personally.

But I would be misspeaking myself if I gave the impression that I reject sexism out of self-interest. The real reason is that, while my profession (programmer) requires me to work with my head, my personal life requires me to see with my heart.

When you look at people with your heart, you really start to notice that personality traits - intelligence, humor, hard-heartedness, resolve - don't have a color or a sex. You can see these traits in, or missing from, allllll kinds of people.

And so, when you hear the prejudiced and self-serving claims that a very few people make, you can look at your own experience, and say,. "No. I remember knowing so-and-so, and I know for a fact that you're wrong".

This is the reason why I do not personally recognize the word "race" as meaning anything. I always put the word in quotes. I do not consider that there is any real difference between me and a "black" person or an "asian" person or a "white" person. I consider all of us to be of the same race, totally and completely.

In regards to cultures, I do recognize them. However, when a native american or a european says "my culture", I always mentally protest. I say, "Wait! That's my culture, too!"

Their culture developed because they're human. So am I. The feelings that drove them to shape that culture are in me, too. I feel shut out when someone says "my culture". I may not say it, but I mentally murmur, "It's mine, too".

When a friend recently visited Costa Rica, and spoke about how beautiful "your country" was, I told him, "It's your country, too". Earth is our home, and all of it belongs to all of us.

Aside from the obvious, I also do not consider that there is any real difference between men as a group and women as a group, either. Just the biological, and what derives from it, but that's it.

There is no real reason why my personality couldn't live in a "chinese" body, or a woman's body.

That recognition of our vast commonality with each other, I think, is sorely missing from our daily public lives, our political dialogue, and how we treat each other within our society.

How do you protest this situation and call out for us to treat each other better?

Well.

This is a start.