auramidnight:

Every time I hear the term ‘reverse-racism’, ‘reverse-sexism’ and all the other ‘reverse-isms’ I die a little inside.

 ”Reverse” whateverism means none of it. Which would be nice. But when people use it like that, they imply that racism is specific towards blacks and sexism is specific towards women. An “ism” is not owned by one specific group that happens to experience it the most. 

What’s awful about this term, as my friend puts it : “Reverse racism implies there is a proper direction to racism” (which there isn’t. It shouldn’t exist in the first place.)

So anyone who uses it like that comes off as racist/sexist/whatever to me….and honestly, just plain stupid.   

That’s not to imply it doesn’t exist. A person sexist towards men is still sexist. Not reverse-sexist.