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prosexist en · ADJ

Etymology

From pro- + sexist.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) In favour of sexism.
    • Walzer's critigue of sexism would be explained and justified, against a conventionalist prosexist alternative, by my account of moral explanation. 1990, Alan Gilbert, Democratic Individuality, page 154:
    • However, this scale was shortened to 30 items (16 prosexist and 14 antisexist statements) by Parker (1996), based on pilot work, because a small sample of Canadian university students judged 10 of the original statements to be inappropriate in the mid-1990s. 2014, Raymond F. Paloutzian, Religious Orientation and Authoritarianism in Cross-cultural Perspective, page 185:
    • Prosexist symbolization was present throughout Western society; feminism used scientific knowledge & social scientific methods to criticize & explain these symbolizations. 1980, Sociological Abstracts, volume 28, page 1139: