I started thinking that English was pretty weird after I started studying Mandarin. I would say something like "it was a sad situation" in Mandarin, and the other person would be like "how could the situation itself be sad? Do you mean that situation made people feel sad?"<p>Now I see it everywhere. The police officer's statement was racist, the shoes were sexist, etc. I think this kind of imprecision may actually muddy the waters a bit when we try to talk about these important issues.<p>The shoes were not actually sexist. They are not capable of being sexist. Buy them and wear them if you want. Good on you for letting the company know how to make the product more like what you consider ideal.