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antireason en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + reason.

Meanings

  1. Against reason; ignoring reason.
    • Interactions between women and men, or girls and boys, are warped with imbalance from the outset: “Male acculturation (a better description would be males’ seasoning) is antifemale, antiwomanist, antifeminist, and antireason […] Most men have been taught to treat, respond, listen, and react to women from a male’s point of view” (Madhubuti, 2005, p. 175). 2018 February 27, “White Men’s Terrorism: Rape Culture, Mass Gun Violence, and Raising Our Boys to Hate Our Girls (and Everyone Else)”, in The Bridges We Burn:

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