&gt; Is that not indicative of being the product of a sexist environment?<p>A large number of modern feminists strongly believe that most *ism is a result of institutional and societal force - i.e. that people oppress others because they&#x27;ve been taught to, their society pressures them to do so, and that not doing so can result in harm to them.<p>The problem is... how do you solve this? Whose fault is it? The institutional pressures are almost certainly not any individual&#x27;s fault. But the fact remains that on an individual level, the man in this example is oppressing the woman, and something has to be done about that in the short term.