masculism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Advocacy of men's rights.

   • I assume, in other words, that a healthy feminism will be promasculist, just as a healthy masculism will be profeminist.
2. 2

   Support for patriarchy / male domination of women

   Support for patriarchy / male domination of women; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.

   • The ages of masculism are now drawing to a close. Their dying days are lit up by a final flare of universal violence and despair such as the world has seldom before seen.
   • Fascism, fully revealed, is the extreme, exquisite expression of masculism, of patriarchy, and thus the natural enemy of feminism, its quintessential opposite.
   • As Brittan (1989:4) has succinctly put it, "the ideology that justifies and naturalizes male domination" is "masculism." And masculism is already antisocial because masculism as an ideology universalizes "man" as the "maker" of history.
3. 3

   Sexism in favor of men.

   • Residual masculism remained quite powerful, and does so to this day. At school, boys continue to command more playground space and teacher attention than do girls.

The neighborhood

• synonymmasculinism
• synonymandrocentrism
• synonympatriarchalism
• neighbormasculist
• neighborfeminism
• neighborfeminist
• neighborformenism
• neighbormasculinism
• neighbormasculinist