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gender baiting

gender baiting noun: the enforcement of gender norms by disparaging or marginalizing those that violate them.

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
    • Unfortunately racial profiling, politicking from behind the pulpit and gender baiting damage the witness of the Church—even though it sometimes plays well within the specific group.2007, R. D. Bernard, Making Church Matter, →ISBN, page 58

Forms of gender baiting

alternative formgender-baiting

Questions about gender baiting

What does gender baiting mean?
Gender baiting means the enforcement of gender norms by disparaging or marginalizing those that violate them.
What part of speech is gender baiting?
Gender baiting is a noun.

Words near gender baiting in the dictionary

  1. gender
  2. gender affirmation surgeries
  3. gender affirmation surgery
  4. gender asterisk
  5. gender asterisks
  6. gender baiting
  7. gender bender
  8. gender benders
  9. gender binaries
  10. gender binary
  11. gender blind

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