&gt; If you want to talk about the type of sexism also often refereed to as &quot;institutional sexism&quot;<p>But I was not talking about institutional sexism. Sexism can be individual (and often is), but unlike misogyny it does not imply disdain towards women; simply behavior (that can feel neutral or even positive) that results in increasing the imbalance of power.<p>&gt; But &quot;sexism&quot; is an overloaded term whether you want it to be or not.<p>OK, but it also a term that was coined by a feminist professor fifty years ago and considered a well-accepted academic term regardless of its colloquial meaning(s).<p>&gt; Academic writing is about clarity and making sure the reader understands the author&#x27;s meaning.<p>Academics seem to understand that writing just fine. You can&#x27;t claim that physicists&#x27; definition of energy is unclear merely because it is also used colloquially to mean other things, and you can&#x27;t expect an academic to clarify what they mean by &quot;sexism&quot; just as you can&#x27;t expect them to explain what they mean by &quot;energy&quot;, because those are well-established, commonly used academic terms. If you find them confusing, you can either learn the relevant subject or choose not to.<p>Unlike energy, the word sexism started with its academic definition and was only later overloaded (due to confusion) by laymen, rather than the other way around.<p>&gt; But if they say &quot;definition 2 of foo isn&#x27;t actually foo, it&#x27;s just bar. For any and all uses of foo, including outside this paper&quot; they&#x27;re a hack.<p>I didn&#x27;t say that. I just clarified the original and academic definition of the term, because it is the colloquial term that causes confusion. The academic term is quite clear. Do with it as you like. You&#x27;re obviously very angry about something.