manarchist
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manarchist (plural manarchists)
- (slang, derogatory) A masculinist anarchist, especially one who downplays women's issues.
- 2010, “Queen of the Neighbourhood”, in Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils, PM Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- Is it [singling out women revolutionaries] a reaction to the manarchists who don't believe gender privilege exists or is a valid topic of conversation?
- 2011 October 26, Sarah Seltzer, “Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere—and They're Not Going Away”, in The Nation:
- “There’s a ‘manarchist’ problem in a lot of left-wing spaces,” Federow, a young New York–based artist and activist who has been active in Occupy Judaism and has regularly volunteered downtown, says. “By that I mean a small group of white guys take up space and make de facto choices for a larger group of people.”
- 2013 November 2, Laurie Penny, “Laurie Penny on Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman's place in the revolution”, in New Statesman:
- Nor is it unique to the organised left - the brocialist's more chaotic cousin is, of course, the manarchist, who displays many of the same traits in terms of blindness to privilege, casual sexism and a refusal to acknowledge structural gender oppression, but has a slightly different reading list and a more monochrome wardrobe.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:manarchist.
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