<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><b>"Are Arabs sexist? The institutions, perhaps, but not the people<br></b><i>Institutions, and not popular beliefs, cause the political and economic inequalities faced by women in the Arab world.</i></div><div><i><<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-4">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-4</a>>"</i></div><div><br></div><div>The distinction offered here between "institutions and power relations" on the one hand, and "popular preferences" on the other, is parallel to that proposed between racism - taken to refer to legal and governmental practice - and racial prejudice. </div><div><br></div><div>The former refers to the crimes of public policy - the latter to thought-crimes - and so the former is far easier to eliminate. </div><div><br></div><div>--CGE </div><br><br></body></html>