Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by ideas or behavior reflecting a disbelief in the economic, political, and social equality of the sexes.
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- adjective antagonistic to
feminism - adjective advocating
antifeminism - noun A person who is
antagonistic tofeminism . - noun An advocate of
antifeminism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women
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Examples
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There is a real thing called antifeminist, antiwoman views.
The Autumn Begins 2008
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Men and women, religious and secular, all became significantly more “feminist” in their views over this period, although the gap between secular and highly religious Americans persisted on some aspects of gender roles, mostly because of a firmly antifeminist minority within certain fundamentalist religions.5
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Take the antifeminist Evangelical "Quiverfull Movement."
Frank Schaeffer: We Need Freedom From Religion Not Just Freedom of Religion Frank Schaeffer 2011
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And I'd like to put forward that comments such as the ones above make this blog an unsafe space for fat women, a space supportive of disordered thinking about food and women's bodies, and an actively antifeminist space.
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing 2009
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And I have news for you: the most retrograde and antifeminist attitude about motherhood is the one that holds that there is something limiting and unimportant and retrograde and antifeminist about motherhood.
It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Take the antifeminist Evangelical "Quiverfull Movement."
Frank Schaeffer: We Need Freedom From Religion Not Just Freedom of Religion Frank Schaeffer 2011
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Someone's private spirituality, sure, but the tone of this video and any religious pandering towards women is antifeminist imo.
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Just funny that when an "artist" like Atom Egoyan, an Altman, a Kubrick makes such an obvious horndog lech-fest, we all have to assume it's for some noble artistic purpose, but when it's Michael Bay shooting Megan Fox through golden filters hunched over a motorcycle, it's some sexist, tacky antifeminist objectification.
Archive 2010-01-01 N A 2010
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Just funny that when an "artist" like Atom Egoyan, an Altman, a Kubrick makes such an obvious horndog lech-fest, we all have to assume it's for some noble artistic purpose, but when it's Michael Bay shooting Megan Fox through golden filters hunched over a motorcycle, it's some sexist, tacky antifeminist objectification.
SURFING N A 2010
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They decry him as antifeminist, sex-obsessed, pervy.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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