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masculinist|ˈmæskjʊlɪnɪst|
[f. masculine a. + -ist.]
1. An advocate of men's rights, opp. feminist n. Cf. hominist.
1918V. Woolf Writer's Diary (1953) 6 He [sc. Milton] was the first of the masculinists. 1967Times 13 Oct. 8 No militant masculinists stooped to conquer; indeed almost the only men to be seen on the premises, apart from the staff, were male journalists invited to help celebrate the occasion.
2. A person of the female sex who adopts or affects characteristics or qualities usually thought of as masculine.
1928Daily Express 11 July 5/3 The suffragists modelled their appearance, their manners, and their education on that of boys and men... They were, in short, thorough⁓going masculinists.
3. attrib.
1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xvii. 257 Bloomsbury still awaits its ‘masculinist’ Messiah.
Senses 1–2 in Dict. become A. n. 1–2. Delete sense 3 in Dict. and quot. 1951. Add: B. adj. Of, designating, or containing attitudes, values, etc., held to be typical of men; macho.
1912R. West in Daily Dispatch (Manchester) 26 Nov. 6/6 Mr. Edgar takes the usual masculinist standpoint of regarding women as incompetent weaklings except for their maternal functions. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xvii. 257 Bloomsbury still awaits its ‘masculinist’ Messiah. 1980Washington Post 18 Feb. b5/3 He was ‘really hooked into macho’ during a lengthy stint in the Green Berets. He is writing a book on masculinist theory. 1992Jrnl. Women & Relig. XI. 5 Feminism teaches us that no one perspective, no one representation constitutes truth—although masculinist European perspectives have been accorded the value of ‘objectivity’ for many centuries. |