: characterized by or expressing hostility or discrimination toward males
an anti-male bias
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Anyone who thinks this movie is anti-male isn’t paying any attention.
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Feminism needs rebranding because it is increasingly being perceived as encapsulating an anti-male belief system that aims to elbow men out of the way so that women can prosper.
—Luba Kassova, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
Some might still see Barbie as anti-feminist, or anti-male, and the movie as little more than a major corporate effort to boost the doll’s sales.
—Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 29 July 2023
Going way beyond the puerile, unfunny, anti-male, anti-maternal playtime that poisons Barbie, Rivette and his French actresses (perhaps influenced by Simone de Beauvoir’s intimacy with Jean-Paul Sartre) understood the complexity of desire felt by women as idealistic individuals.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2023
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Feminism needs rebranding because it is increasingly being perceived as encapsulating an anti-male belief system that aims to elbow men out of the way so that women can prosper.
—Luba Kassova, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
Some might still see Barbie as anti-feminist, or anti-male, and the movie as little more than a major corporate effort to boost the doll’s sales.
—Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 29 July 2023
Going way beyond the puerile, unfunny, anti-male, anti-maternal playtime that poisons Barbie, Rivette and his French actresses (perhaps influenced by Simone de Beauvoir’s intimacy with Jean-Paul Sartre) understood the complexity of desire felt by women as idealistic individuals.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2023
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“Anti-male.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-male. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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