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Because the relations between the sexes has always been complex, and women have been held in high esteem and wielded significant influence, despite legal disabilities, for ages. Furthermore, even in the most "sexist" household, it is likely that there is a rough equality given the difficulty of maintaining a firm "upper hand" in an interpersonal relationship, unless the guy is a batterer. Therefore, the sensitivities are, or ought to be, a good deal less about "sexism". On the other hand, it has been less than 150 years since the termination of chattel slavery, and less than 50 since the legal end of de jure segregation. Lynching has died out, but only recently there was an incident of "dragging" a black man to his death. In other words, it is right, given our history, to be more sensitive. Even then, if one watches Saturday Night Live, for example, they even make successful sketches employing black stereotypes, as in "The Ladies Man", but that is partly because they are cautious about what will work and what will not..... |
