Meanings
comparative more antiwomanist · superlative most antiwomanist
- Opposing womanism.
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Interactions between women and men, or girls and boys, are warped with imbalance from the outset: “Male acculturation (a better description would be males’ seasoning) is antifemale, antiwomanist, antifeminist, and antireason […] Most men have been taught to treat, respond, listen, and react to women from a male’s point of view” (Madhubuti, 2005, p. 175).
2018 February 27, “White Men’s Terrorism: Rape Culture, Mass Gun Violence, and Raising Our Boys to Hate Our Girls (and Everyone Else)”, in The Bridges We Burn
plural antiwomanists
- One who opposes womanism.
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This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.
2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism
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