Reverse sexism
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Reverse sexism is a controversial term for discrimination against men and boys, or for anti-male prejudice.[1][2][3]
Reverse sexism has been compared by sociologists to reverse racism and "reverse ethnocentrism," in that both can be a response to affirmative action policies that are designed to combat institutionalized sexism and racism, and are a form of backlash, through which members of dominant groups (e.g., men, whites, or Anglos) assert that they are being discriminated against.[4][5] In more rigid forms, this stance assumes that the historic power imbalance in favor of men has been reversed,[6] and that women are now viewed as the superior gender or sex.[7]
Feminist theorist
misogynist reaction to feminism; men's rights activists such as Warren Farrell promote the idea of reverse sexism to argue that the feminist movement has rearranged society in such a way that it now benefits women and harms men.[8]
In the preamble to a study on internalized sexism, Steve Bearman, Neill Korobov and Avril Thorne describe reverse sexism as a "misinformed notion", stating that "while individual women or women as a whole may enact prejudicial biases towards specific men or toward men as a group, this is done without the backing of a societal system of institutional power".[9]
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Further reading
- Masequesmay, Gina (5 January 2024). "Sexism | Sexism and the men's movement". Encyclopaedia Britannica.