male pattern violence
See also: male-pattern violence
English
Etymology
Apparently modelled on male pattern baldness.
Noun
male pattern violence (uncountable)
- (feminism) Violent behavior thought to be characteristic of men.
- 2011, Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet:
- As civilization collapses, we will see an increase in male-pattern violence. We will see an increase in violence against those who resist. We will see an increase in violence against people of color.
- 2019, Martin Gitlin, Sexual Consent, page 86:
- As feminists have known for years: the issue is male-pattern violence, and sexual assault is only one facet of this violence which keeps women in a subservient class to men.
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