Why this word is great
ETHNOSEXISM — [Noun] An intersectional form of discrimination that constructs a sex or gender as disadvantaged due to ethnic background and geopolitical position. From German *Ethnosexismus*, coined by Gabriele Dietze (2016), combining *ethno-* ("relating to race or ethnicity") and *sexism* ("discrimination based on sex or gender"). Unlike *racism* (which broadly targets ethnic groups) or *misogyny* (which denotes hatred of women universally), ethnosexism weaponizes gendered oppression as a racialized inevitability—the colonial gaze that reduces Middle Eastern women to veiled victims, the xenophobic caricature of Asian men as emasculated, or the hypersexualization of Black women as a justification for their exploitation. It is the insidious alchemy of prejudice, turning bigotry into anthropology, and cruelty into cultural critique.