One of the basic things to understand in sociology and social psychology is that what people want is often shaped by what they are encouraged to want (and it&#x27;s very easy to make people want something, as verified in psychology experiments). This is why modern feminism doesn&#x27;t concentrate on the &quot;want&quot;. Not because it&#x27;s not important (it&#x27;s very important!), but because it&#x27;s hard to separate cause and effect, especially under an unequal distribution of power. We only look at the result: how power is distributed, and <i>assume</i> that people don&#x27;t &quot;inhernetly&quot; want to have less power than others, as that would mean letting others determine their lives. Of course, this assumption could be wrong, but so far there is no evidence that is the case. Consequently, feminism is not concerned with who &quot;contributes&quot; what to sexism (it is easy to make people want to be subjugated; can they later be said to be contributing to their own subjugation?). Sexism is an objective state of society, not a specific behavior (misogyny is), and when we say that some action is sexist we mean that it contributes to sexism; the action itself can be completely free of any ill intent.