Weekly Topic: What does Judicial Sexism Mean?

Catharine MacKinnon indicates that the term "woman" is not inherently tied to biological sex, but instead denotes a mixture of social evaluation and biological fact. With this caveat in mind, she explains that the judicial system works to the disadvantage of women because it consists of a set of social evaluations that prioritize the perspective, biological facts associated with and judgments of "men," defined as a similar mixture of biological fact and social evaluation.

• What does it mean to call a judicial system sexist if it does not mean that one sex is exclusively promoted over the other?
  
• What are some examples of judicial sexism that apply to the judicial system today? Are MacKinnon's claims that rape laws are defined from the perspective of men still credible?
  
• What is the damage associated with judicial sexism? Does it apply exclusively to women or does society as a whole suffer? How could judicial sexism be effectively combated and what obstacles would mitigate strategies designed to combat judicial sexism?