Genderism

Quick meaning: Genderism is a noun meaning Belief that one gender is superior; discrimination on the basis of gender. (Compare sexism.).

Meaning

Belief that one gender is superior; discrimination on the basis of gender. (Compare sexism.).

More Meanings

1. (countable) A gendered or gender-stereotyped behaviour, activity or statement.
2. (usually uncountable) A belief that gender is rigid, usually a belief that it is binary, comprising male and female, and that the aspects of a person's gender are inherently linked to their sex at birth.
3. (in right-wing usage, derogatory) Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.

Example Sentences

One of the worst [erroneous interpretations of Darwinism] constitutes the fundamental basis for racism, genderism, and other individual superiority-inferiority conceptions.

We learn that racism, sexism, genderism, and [each of] the isms feeds on itself, and the “superior” group truly damages their inner characters. The "inferior" group, which also suffers […]

But what is missing from these lists are the names and deeds of the everyday heros^([sic]), those queer activists who, though suffering from depression, have tackled the homophobia and racism and genderism that are the roots of the blues.

Genderism is the ideology that there are, and should be, only two genders and that all or most aspects of one's gender are inevitably tied to the gender assigned at birth. Genderism reinforces negative attitudes toward gender nonconformity,[…]

Word Forms

• genderisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bigenderism, postgenderism, sexism, neuterism, gynocentrism, masculinism.

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