Improved Vocabulary for Discrimination

Something that's really been bothering me is the lack of descriptive vocabulary for discrimination. Sexism and racism have established good language precedents*, but they've been largely ignored. Instead, we have a jargon juggernaut of homophobia, transphobia, cisphobia, biphobia, and an ever expanding list of other things which aren't actually fears. Interestingly, discrimination based on age and physical ability have followed the precedent, producing the (arguably unnecessary) terms ageism, and ableism.

Above comments aside, I'm not going to argue the accuracy of oppression claims. I'm just going to lay out some new terms that cover the major areas. This list is by no means comprehensive.To help clarify, I'm including some of the terms they replace and/or subsume. Here goes:

• Racism: discrimination based on race and ancestry.
• Sexism: discrimination based on biological sex. Includes: misogyny, misandry
• Sexualism: discrimination based on sexual orientation. Includes: homophobia, homophobia, biphobia.
• Genderism: discrimination based on gender identity. Includes: transphobia, cisphobia.

There, was that really so hard?

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*Despite the fact '-ism' is also used for ideologies, which really don't fall under the same categorical umbrella.