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OUR DAILY SEXISM - Beware 'cause it's There!

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OUR DAILY SEXISM I'm really glad that the #MeToo movement has also brought awareness to something that is going on as long as I can remember: casual, annoying, boring, paternalistic, arrogant DAILY SEXISM . Except that it can seem so deceptively minor, even subtle, that the untrained female ears and eyes didn't pick up on it when we were much younger - because we had gotten used to it.   I don't know about you - but I'm quite aware of it now, more than ever - and I've just about had it. Maybe you too? Let's learn how to fight back. Here's a classic case that happened to me the other day. I'm riding the bus down Hollywood Blvd., which is in itself a slow freak-show - left and right are large groups of Asian tourists in little white hats staring at impersonators like Spiderman, Minnie Mouse, and Edward Scissorhands.  A man in his late thirties with the aura (and the body) of a muscled tough guy who's looking for trouble