Meaning

Advocacy of men's rights..

Definitions by Sense

1. Advocacy of men's rights.
2. Support for patriarchy / male domination of women; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
3. Sexism in favor of men.

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[…] proposing the development of a counter corrective movement to be called "Masculism" — lady, I thank thee for that word! — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men. […] In his plea for masculism John Macy defies the champions of present-day feminism.

Unfortunately, masculism also has a tendency to adopt the less constructive traits and tactics of modern feminism, including polarizing rhetoric, exaggerated claims of victimization as the basis of political demands, and the tailoring of facts to fit ideology.

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

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.

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.

Titling a 1914 public lecture series at New York's Astor Hotel, “Studies in Masculism,” she complained that the printer objected to the word and attempted to change it. Despite an unfriendly press, she specially targeted "masculist" authors and purveyors of negative views of women.

Masculism, the form of sexism practiced in our culture, has many facets, and we shall explore them in Chapter 2. Here we need only say that masculism is in part the mistaking of male perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, standards, values, and perceptions for all human perceptions.

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