phallocentric

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To describe such discourses as phallocentric is almost an understatement.

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  • I even made its way into architecture, and I even remember running into some bizarre theory portraying Newtonian physics as phallocentric due to it speaking in terms of "force" instead of "persuasion" and that sort of thing. —  RealClimate
  • No, in this day and age - which happily resembles, as far as horndog dudes are concerned, any day and age - sexy medical breakthroughs are universally phallocentric. —  I Blame The Patriarchy
  • Comfort died in 2000, so Susan Quilliam, a British relationship shrink, stepped in to write new content and balance out the phallocentric worship from the original. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • It's all about the Fierce Fury of Her Vagina, terrorizing those phallocentric oppressors, so as to elicit cheers from the sisterhood for her Intelligence and Courage, because taking on the powerful National Association of Racist / Sexist Doctor / Politicians is not a job for the faint of heart. —  The Other McCain
  • General Stylistic / rhetorical Principles • Ecriture feminine (never really defines this, but to do so would defy her own strategy) • "logos" is phallocentric • "circular" "fluid" structure - no structure, because that which is fluid cannot be contained. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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