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If it helps, those guys treat other guys the same way.
Also if it helps there are women who treat other people this way too.
This seems akin to racism to me. My favorite quote about this is from President Lyndon B. Johnson. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
My dad isn't this kind of guy, but he is an old white guy that watches Fox News. And it's the same thing with them. He has bought any number of supplements advertised on Fox News, and believes wholeheartedly that one day the world will finally understand the deep wisdom he believes in.
I don't believe you can categorize people as a simple either or. "You're a red piller or not." "You're a conservative or a liberal." But I do think you can apply a personality type to people. And it sounds like you sussed out a guy who really needs to feel superior to other people. I fucking hate those kind of people. So good for you, there are a lot of people who may have never figured it out, or weren't socially aware enough to see it. It sucks this turned out to be what it was, but celebrate the fact you're a strong enough person not to put up with it
You may already know about this but your description of sexism as akin to racism made me want to mention intersectionality. It's an analytical framework used to describe social relations as it pertains to privilege and discrimination. There's a good reason you felt that way. Many feminist theorists pose that most/all forms of oppression (racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, etc.) are modeled after misogyny, which is considered to be the original form of oppression
Thank you for your comment. I've heard of intersectionality but didn't quite understood the idea behind it, as it was only in passing mentioned.
Now watching a talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw