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gender-baiting

gender-baiting is the alternative form of gender baiting.

Meaning of gender baiting

Noun

gender baiting (uncountable)

  1. The enforcement of gender norms by disparaging or marginalizing those that violate them.
    • The obverse is also true: homosexuality is regulated by gender baiting. Gender bending by men is not only derogated by heterosexuals; LGBs also denigrate gender violations by men, often in the name of presenting an acceptable face to the heterosexual world.1999, Janis S. Bohan, Glenda M. Russell, Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, page 103

Questions about gender-baiting

What is gender-baiting the alternative form of?
Gender-baiting is the alternative form of gender baiting.

Words near gender-baiting in the dictionary

  1. gender vague
  2. gender-affected
  3. gender-affirming
  4. gender-affirming surgeries
  5. gender-affirming surgery
  6. gender-baiting
  7. gender-balanced
  8. gender-bender
  9. gender-benders
  10. gender-binary
  11. gender-blind

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