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An online academic article written in March 2015
Sexism is being sterotyped or put in a specific catagory depending on ur sex..
This is gender prejudice. Men thinking a woman cant do a mans job or a woman thinking a man cant perform a womans job this is sexism. Being judged by your gender.
The answer is: Anticleia is explaining why Odysseus cannot embrace her.
In the excerpt from "The Oddysey," Odysseus travels to the underworld, where he finds his mother's spirit. She tells him she has died of sadness, while waiting for him to go back from war. However, when Odysseus wishes to embrace his mother, he finds out her body is not composed of matter - it has no material existance and his arms pass through her. Anticleia is extremely upset, and explains that ghosts have no physical solidness.
The term is self-contradictory.
