Chauvinism (noun): an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex; also: behavior expressive of such an attitude.
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary (online)
In The Boys at the Back, Christina Hoff Sommers says the following: “I became a feminist in the 1970s because I did not appreciate male chauvinism. I still don’t” (4). In Sommers statement, she implies that the word “chauvinism is more closely associated to a negative connotation. I first thought it meant like some sort of hatred, but the definition helped to understand that it refers more to the status and superiority of a male. Since (most) men believe they are above women, this is the reason Christina became a feminist.
Diana Galvez
