Citations:brocialism

English citations of brocialism

Noun: "(slang, pejorative) socialism or progressivism which downplays women's issues or reinforces masculinist attitudes or ideas"

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• 2013, Richard Seymour, quoted in Laurie Penny, "Laurie Penny on Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman's place in the revolution", New Statesman, 2 November 2013:

  That’s where Russell Brand’s manarchism/brocialism come in. The swagger and misogyny sits quite comfortably with another part of his persona which is a sort of squeaky beta-male self-parody in which he appears to really trash the protocols of traditional masculinity.

• 2014, Marc Tracy, "How to Talk to a 'Brocialist'", New Republic, 8 January 2014:

  Often, brocialism manifests at left-wing powwows. Someone raises a feminist grievance. The brocialist instructs her that she is distracted from the paramount issue, namely class.

• 2015, Suzanne Moore, "As Jeremy Corbyn was anointed leader, not one female voice was heard", The Guardian, 12 September 2015:

  The new brocialism cares deeply about women’s issues of course – just not enough to elect an actual woman. They don’t need to, because good lefties speak for all us. They don’t even notice gender.

• 2015, Cathy Newman, "Welcome to Jeremy Corbyn's blokey Britain - where 'brocialism' rules", The Telegraph, 14 September 2015
• 2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:

  In the UK, an almost identical phenomenon occurred when the British liberal media establishment, particularly The Guardian, joined forces with their more youthful offspring in smearing Corbyn and his supporters as being motivated by this nefarious tide of brocialism, despite his squeaky-clean track record on women's issues in the UK.