Definitions
Etymologies
- phall(us) + -centric. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm losing language here: what is the opposite of "phallocentric"?”
“To discount such reactions as "phallocentric" condescension to legitimate female interests, as Suzanne Juhasz proposes (418), seems sheer desperation, not the least because some of the complaints issued from avowed Janeites (see Johnson, "Divine" 150).”
“It is ludicrous to argue that women should be regarded as victims in patriarchal, phallocentric America and must be wards of government.”
“Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes (Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there) -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity?”
The Huffington Post: Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
“Big dicks can always shrivel into nubbins of insignificance, and as such they are obvious stand-up stand-ins for phallocentric patriarchy.”
The Guardian: Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
“Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity?”
The Huffington Post: Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
“The "SMB" part was just dirty enough to be offensive but not so dirty as to be criminal, and while it was obviously phallocentric this did not preclude women from using it ironically.”
“Conversely, *if* I get into print and stay there - the only way Zornhau will be publically merged with my RL identity - and things swing too far the other way, then people can point at Kurtzhau and say, "Your dad writes phallocentric books about male violence.”
“Epics and their contemporary shadows, action-adventure tales, are very much phallocentric genres in which women, when they appear at all, are relegated to the roles of damsels in distress, mother-figures, sex objects, or witches, either good or bad.”
Lieutenants, sergeants, squires, free-lances, and the hero-king
“Saying perSON is still misogynistic/patriarchal/phallocentric and some other big words i heard at university.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phallocentric’.
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 320 more...
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words that trip off the tongue
ideology, phallocentric, parapraxis, gelid, illusion, tangible, tangibility, crux, medusa, noir, chloroform, chap and 98 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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word set8
dolmen, cairn, penetralia, dovetailed, draftsmanship, gestalt, dingbat, tenebrosity, squash racquets, dogleg, prurience, deflowering and 68 more...
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Benladen's Words
phallocentric, disproportionate, bewave, distraught, uncoordinated, disgraceful, bewayne, beweltered, sensical, cunt, extrapolate, dysphoria and 86 more...
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little light in the loafers
merman, divine, sassafras, jockstrap, milquetoast, defrocked, poppycock, murse, fabulous, ab fab, panache, gild the lily and 51 more...
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bombchicken's list
list of words I use, like, et cetera.
reneger, abacinate, defenestrate, egregious, adam's ale, cuba libre, pulchritudinous, masticate, hoi polloi, ort, pedagogy, abscond and 82 more...
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