female chauvinist

American  

noun

1. a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.

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Usage

What does female chauvinist mean? A female chauvinist is a woman who disrespects or behaves condescendingly toward men because she believes that men are inferior to women.Female chauvinist is used disapprovingly, especially in cases where the speaker believes a woman consistently and openly mistreats men and acts as if she and all women are superior to women. The term is often used to criticize feminists who are perceived as hating all men (even though feminism is the advocating of equality for women, not superiority).Example: If you say you hate all men, you’re not a feminist—you’re a female chauvinist.

Other Word Forms

• female chauvinism noun

Etymology

Origin of female chauvinist

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

In 2005, the year I graduated college, Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs came out.

From Slate

The boxes of them recently cleared out of my mother’s attic and my undergraduate thesis — on Cosmopolitan, Ms., and Playboy magazines in the 1960s and ‘70s — prove it. My feminist awakening was, like many others’, peppered with gateway drugs like that: Ariel Levy’s “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” the HBO series “Cathouse,” and, of course, Jezebel — the groundbreaking women’s website, which current owner G/O Media unceremoniously shuttered Thursday after more than 15 years, and where I worked from 2013 to 2017.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1972, Friedan famously called Abzug and Steinem “female chauvinist boors.”

From Slate

Feminism, as Ariel Levy put it in “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” got “raunchy.”

From The New Yorker

She was later introduced to Ariel Levy, the author of “The Rules Do Not Apply” and “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” who proved to be a co-writer on par excellence with J.R.

From New York Times

Related Words

• male chauvinist
• misogynist