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chauvinist

[shoh-vuh-nist] / ˈʃoʊ və nɪst /
NOUN
person who believes one gender is superior
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NOUN
zealously patriotic person
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I remembered Feminist Chauvinist Pigs, too, but not the vast majority of other feminist literature published around the same time.

From Slate • May 12, 2025

Feminism, as Ariel Levy put it in “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” got “raunchy.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019

She was later introduced to Ariel Levy, the author of “The Rules Do Not Apply” and “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” who proved to be a co-writer on par excellence with J.R.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2019

She tells me it was reading Ariel Levy’s book Female Chauvinist Pigs that opened her eyes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2015

"Extremists, whether Chauvinist or Pacifist, are not helpful in avoiding wars" is one of many conclusions, double-edged perhaps, to which he is led by retrospect of his own trials.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 by Various




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