anti-feminist

adjective

an·ti-fem·i·nist ˌan-tē-ˈfe-mə-nist

ˌan-tī-

Synonyms of anti-feminist next

: opposed to feminism

… the obviously anti-feminist bias of these cultural and literary practices.—

Kirk Combe

anti-feminism

ˌan-tē-ˈfe-mə-ˌni-zəm

ˌan-tī-

noun

The current of anti-feminism which developed in the newer religious orders … —

Margaret W. Labarge

anti-feminist noun

… a publicly abusive faction of men's right advocates and anti-feminists … —

Grant Barrett

Examples of anti-feminist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Pollster Jeong Han-wool, who participated in designing and analyzing the survey, found that anti-feminist sentiment is increasingly determining 20-something men's voting behaviors. —

Se Eun Gong, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024 Second, the current President, Yoon Suk Yeol, won election in 2022 on an explicitly anti-feminist agenda, with a promise to abolish the ministry for gender equality. —

Richard V. Reeves, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024 All three support anti-feminist and anti-LGBT legislation, including the decriminalization of domestic violence and bills outlawing gender-affirming procedures. —

Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024 Her comments have been interpreted as anti-feminist by some. —

Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2023 And Tate is only one of many anti-feminist podcasters who’ve risen in popularity in recent years. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024 There is backlash of course, but now also backlash to the backlash, with many women are now speaking out to defend Neeleman against the claims of being anti-feminist. —

Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024 As an author and proponent of attachment parenting theory, an ideology that promotes what some critics say is extreme closeness between mothers and children, Bialik was accused by some of espousing anti-feminist and toxic advice in her books. —

Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2023 Even the secular intelligentsia banded with the ayatollah, dismissing the protests and the blatant anti-Semitic and anti-feminist character of the new leadership as a few minor quirks upon which the great revolution could not afford to dwell. —

Roya Hakakian, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2023

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