The people over at Oxford Dictionaries have come under heavy criticism online, after people noticed sexism in a series of examples used for certain words’ definitions.
Activist Michael Oman-Reagan first brought Twitter’s attention to the issue with a screengrab of the Oxford Dictionary’s online definition of ‘rabid’.
Their definition of rabid is: ‘Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support or belief in something’, or ‘(of an animal) affected by rabies.’
Then we get to the usage example: ‘A rabid feminist’.
Wait. What?
Why is a dictionary going straight to ‘feminist’ as an example of being rabid? Aren’t there other examples to be used that don’t reinforce… Read the full story