phallogocentric love

phallogocentric

Definitions

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  • adjective Pertaining to phallogocentrism.

Etymologies

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Blend of phallocentric and logocentric. Surface analysis is phallus + logo- + centric.

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Examples

  • What I think is that the original logo design replicates and reinforces heterosexual intercourse–the straw pierces the juicy orange, etc. and thus has a phallogocentric function.

    TROPICANA ORANGE JUICE CARTON PROTESTS » Sociological Images 2009

  • It's discriminatory -- everyone knows that Newton's laws are a phallogocentric prescription for rape, and that western science is just another way of exerting

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • Critical theorists would not, of course, associate transgression with sin, as Woods did, since sin is a conception of the phallogocentric church.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • phallogocentric” thought: that is, the kind of “male thinking” that insists on telling as absolute truth one and only one story about reality.

    Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

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  • Jacques Derrida's perfect neologism for hegemonic masculinity in hermeneutics.

    October 6, 2007