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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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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

I’ve long admired her willingness to explore the way lived experience doesn’t necessarily conform to feminist hope, going back to her first book, 2005’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017

Ariel Levy, feminist intellectual and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, echoes this sentiment.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017

The “Sleepless Watchdog” in France is known as a Chauvinist, in England as a Jingo, in Prussia as a Pangermanist.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various




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