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- noun uncountable
Government bymen . - noun countable A government controlled by men.
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Examples
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Ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, was also known as a phallocracy, in which men dominated women.
Worshipping Women: Onassis Center Jan 2009
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Criticising the rush to treat DSK as a victim, Wadham added: "Wilfully unreconstructed, France is a society in which women collude in a continued phallocracy."
How Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest awoke a dormant anger in the heart of France's women 2011
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Ohm said she simply, "wanted to expose how the media phallocracy normalizes racism and homophobia in American society," but eventually found that she had gotten more than she bargained for.
Will Menaker: "Michele Bachmann" Revealed as Elaborate "Borat" Style Hoax 2009
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In this case the project is overcoming what is variously called male dominance, machismo, phallocracy, patriarchy, etc., to which men and their female collaborators seem very attached, inasmuch as so many machines of war must be mounted against them.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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In this case the project is overcoming what is variously called male dominance, machismo, phallocracy, patriarchy, etc., to which men and their female collaborators seem very attached, inasmuch as so many machines of war must be mounted against them.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The other guy, when verbally attacked by a rather intolerant fellow grad student for his participation in the male hegemony responded: “I guess phallocracy isn’t as fun as it sounds.”
gangerh commented on the word phallocracy
Some would say like the UK at the moment - run by a load of pricks.
August 7, 2008
smeggo commented on the word phallocracy
Dick headed.
October 25, 2008