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  • adjective Opposed to women.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ woman

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Examples

  • "Several of my really close female friends feel this is unleashing some kind of antiwoman sentiment.

    At the Barricades 2008

  • She is also correct about this -- the bishops joined the entire Republican leadership is opposing this funding, along with just about every far-right, ultraconservative, antiwoman advocacy organization in the United States.

    Jon O'Brien: The Church And Contraception Jon O'Brien 2011

  • She is also correct about this -- the bishops joined the entire Republican leadership is opposing this funding, along with just about every far-right, ultraconservative, antiwoman advocacy organization in the United States.

    Jon O'Brien: The Church And Contraception Jon O'Brien 2011

  • My point is that if Democrats try to say "This candidate is antiwoman" at this point in time, it's just going to get boiled down into "The Dems are sexist pigs".

    Report: Palin's Spokesperson Didn't Know About Pregnancy Two Days Ago 2009

  • It is not an antiwoman backlash that has cost Senator Clinton; it's the sleazy nature of her campaign.

    Mail Call: Debating Hillary 2008

  • It is not an antiwoman backlash that has cost Hillary Clinton; it's the sleazy nature of her campaign.

    A Forum on Gender, Class and Power 2008

  • There is a real thing called antifeminist, antiwoman views.

    The Autumn Begins 2008

  • Besides, it's true that the Muslim headscarf has become not only a symbol of fundamentalism and extremism but also a symbol of an aggressive antiwoman, anti-Western ideology.

    MAIL CALL 2007

  • What I would like to see, as an outside observer of course but one whose probably primary concern among social issues is indeed health care, not polarization, or gender separation on the health care in America to pro- and antiwoman, or scientific and “natural”, but instead reclaiming the field of medicine from law-suit based medicine, or unwarrantedly surgical and demanding better health care from the powers that are.

    Doctor Resigns From Hospital Because She Won’t Do Unneeded C-Sections 2005

  • Perhaps the women who criticize fauxcivility MEAN what they say, when they say that what is frequently practiced against them on this board is NOT “civil”, it is antiwoman sentiment, and they RESENT the fact that such disrespect is allowed to flourish against them as a class while women like Alsis get chastized for disrespect against an individual, for being disrespecter of women in the first place!

    Feminist and feminist-friendly only thread: Civility, “Alas” and feminism 2005

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