Discourses rationalizing sexism parallel and depend on those justifying harm to animals

Evidence

These categories expose the specific ways discourses rationalizing sexism, for example, run parallel to or even depend upon discourses rationalizing violence to animals and living systems in the natural world, which also help to rationalize racist identification and historical colonization of Indigenous groups or people of color by white Europeans. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 586

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the ch5 claim that sexism, racism, and anthropocentrism share a value-hierarchized logic of domination, now operationalized as parallel discourses. — connects to: Sexism, racism, and anthropocentrism all share a value-hierarchized logic of domination — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 322; Dehumanizing language retroactively framed coerced abuse as the victims’ natural animal behavior — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 598; Pregnancy and breastfeeding trigger derogation of women when death and animality are salient — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 603 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the analytic payoff of centric-thinking discourse categories the chapter then enumerates item by item.

Broader Connections

• Cruelty to animals may underwrite cruelty to dehumanized humans #corroborates (0.82)
• Dehumanizing language retroactively framed coerced abuse as the victims’ natural animal behavior #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 598
• A ranked thinking about beings underlies racism, sexism, and anthropocentrism alike #expands (0.78) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 412
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding trigger derogation of women when death and animality are salient #qualifies (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 603