Masculinist

Quick meaning: Masculinist is an adjective meaning Relating to or in accordance with masculinism.

Meaning

Relating to or in accordance with masculinism.

More Meanings

1. An advocate of masculinism.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• masculinists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include masculinistic, masculist, masculine, transmasculine, machoistic, manistic.

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