masculinist

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English

Etymology

From masculine +‎ -ist.

Adjective

masculinist (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or in accordance with masculinism.
    • 1985 April 27, Michael Zonta, “Men and the Sexual Revolution”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      We live in a masculinist-oriented (as opposed to a feminist-oriented) society. That is, we live in a society which rewards masculine action, even if such action is taken by a woman.
    • 1999 March 19, Natalie Angier, The Guardian:
      But evolutionary psychology, as it has been disseminated across mainstream consciousness, is a cranky and despotic Cyclops, its single eye glaring through an overwhelmingly masculinist lens. I say "masculinist" rather than male because the view of male behaviour promulgated by hard-core evolutionary psychologists is as narrow and inflexible as their view of womanhood.
    • 2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84:
      This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games; the masculine subcultures of computing, including the close links between technophilia and technoporn; and the cultivation of gendered differences in consumer desire in technomarketing.

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Noun

masculinist (plural masculinists)

  1. An advocate of masculinism.

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