&gt; If I&#x27;m buying my young niece a toy, and see two otherwise equal toys except one is blue and one is pink, is it sexist to choose the pink one?<p>It would be sexist if you bought the pink one thinking &quot;She&#x27;s a girl, she&#x27;ll prefer pink to blue&quot; because you would be assuming something based solely on her gender.<p>The best course of action might be to ask her &quot;Do you want the blue one or the pink one?&quot;. But maybe you couldn&#x27;t, and so you used your knowledge of your niece and of little girls in general, and you go with the pink one.<p>Sometimes we have no choice but to use our stereotypes, but whenever possible we should get more data rather than just making assumptions.