[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Sexist" (Adjective)

[Shapiro, Fred]

sexist, adj. (OED 1968 [15 Nov.])

1968 Caroline Bird Born Female [published in June 1968] ix (Internet Archive0

Some views of life are founded on the difference between the sexes.  The worlds of Sigmund Freud, Sir Lancelot, Tarzan, Richard Rodgers, Scheherazade, and the Lone Ranger elaborate the celebrated difference.  Othe symbolic figures aren't "sexist" in this way.

Fred Shapiro

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