sexistn.adj.
/ˈsɛksɪst/, U.S. /ˈsɛksəst/ A. n.
A person who advocates or practises sexism; esp. a man who discriminates against women on the basis of sex.In quot. 1949: a person who promotes the importance of the sexual instinct as a guiding force.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > adherent of
phallist1895
anti-feminist1924
male chauvinist1940
sexist1949
male chauvinist pig1969
phallocrat1975
1949 F. J. Sheen Peace of Soul viii. 155 The rebellion of the masses against social order..is matched by the rebellion of the libido and the animal instincts, which the sexists advocate within the individual.
1961 Current Anthropol. 2 320 Apparently anyone who believes in genetic racial differences is a ‘racist’... I suppose by analogy that anyone who believes in genetic sex differences is a ‘sexist’.
1968 S. Vanauken Freedom for Movement Girls—Now 7 A sexist is one who proclaims or justifies or assumes the supremacy of one sex (guess which) over the other.
1976 New Yorker 5 Apr. 57/1 He was very stern and disagreeable and a gross sexist.
1989 B. Spock & M. Morgan Spock on Spock xxi. 247 In the Forties, I was a sexist like almost everybody else.
1992 Economist 18 Jan. 44/1 It becomes an intolerance of those who do not practise this hyper-tolerance (so that anyone who argues that a canon of authors who happen to be white and male is better than one picked by sex and skin colour is a racist sexist); which is pernicious.
2004 Voice 22 Mar. 9/2 New European directives get tough with the bum-pinching sexist at the photocopier or the school that treats black teachers unfairly.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of sexism or sexists; that advocates or practises sexism, esp. against women.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [adjective] > discriminatory or inegalitarian > by sex
phallocentric1927
anti-feminist1936
phallic-centred1963
male-chauvinistic1968
sexist1968
phallocratic1975
phallicist1991
1968 C. Bird in Vital Speeches (U.S.) 15 Nov. 90 There is recognition abroad that we are in many ways a sexist country.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xvi. 344 The sexist notion that women are..the acceptable prey of predatory males.
1988 Verbatim Autumn 1/2 Most feminists, even recognizing the influence of preverbal and nonverbal forces,..see acceptance of sexist language as an insidious poison.
1994 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (rev. ed.) Introd. 5 Feminism justified female ‘victim power’ by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
2002 R. Gervais & S. Merchant Office: Scripts 1st Ser. Episode 1. 38 ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ That's not sexist, that's the bloke saying it..at last!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1949