sexist (adj.)
1965, from sex (n.) on model of racist, coined by Pauline M. Leet, director of special programs at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., in a speech which was circulated in mimeograph among feminists. Popularized by use in print in Caroline Bird's introduction to “Born Female” (1968).
Why does the word’s origin make it untrue? There certainly was then, and still is in more subtle ways, discrimination against women by some men, and against men by some women, also sexist. Arguing about the word doesn’t excuse your sneering at the Macron’s wife, or her age in general, in a way you would not have done if the man were 25 years older, which was the point of this discussion. So, you were both sexist and ageist. Own it.
And by the way, I would have just ignored your unfunny comment—”I see Macron brought his Grandmama to explain the landing as she remembered it”—except that you made it at the top of more than one thread. That irked me.
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