Saying Darwin himself wasn't sexist ignores the facts in the article I linked. Go read his words for yourself.
He was in support of people in his own day who he knew that supported eugenics, rascism, and sexism.
If you suppose thinking that women are inferior to men merely based on superficial assumptions and unscientific conclusions is not sexist, then that is totally wrong.
Darwin was a sexist and a rascist and believed women children, and everyone who was not a white caucasian was inferior. This was not based on science. One of his contemporary colleages
was in full support of eugenics and Darwin was fully aware and in agreement with all of these things.
Darwin thought that woman was less evolved than man, and was so less intelligent that they were for a time considered two different "psychological" species. There was no basis for this, just like there was no basis for saying Africans were lower forms of man. It's garbage.
Most people don't really pay attention to these facts of evolution. Even women who believe in evolution are largely ignorant of this. But it must be understood that this is an inescapable part of Darwinian evolution, as was pointed out in the third paragraph in the quotes above. People ignore it ,but it's still there, waiting to be unleashed.
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azimuthal: <table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border: 1px inset ;" class="alt2"> Less widely known is that many evolutionists, including Darwin, taught that women were biologically and intellectually inferior to men. The intelligence gap that Darwinists believed existed between males and females was not minor, but of a level that caused some evolutionists to classify the sexes as two distinct psychological species, males as *** frontalis and females as *** parietalis.<sup>4</sup> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>
Oh I see, not darwin but 'darwinists'. Darwin actually never used these term did he? Let's examine reference 4:
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Hey if you had paid attention you would see that it includes Darwin:
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Oh I see, not darwin but 'darwinists'. Darwin actually never used these term did he? Let's examine reference 4:
Love, R., Darwinism and Feminism: The ‘Women Question’ in the Life and Work of Olive Schreiner and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; in: Oldroyd and Langham, The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought, D. Reidel, Holland,pp. 113–131, 1983.
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What are you referring to? You havn't shown or proven anything.