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Noun: "(slang, pejorative) a male socialist or progressive who downplays women's issues or displays a macho attitude"
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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:
- My experience is that ‘brocialists' don’t openly embrace patriarchy; they deny it’s a problem.
- 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.
- 2014, Richard Seymour, "The Left Needs Feminism", Strike! Magazine, Spring 2014, page 19:
- 'Manarchists', or 'brocialists': does it matter what we call them?
- 2015, Cathy Newman, "Welcome to Jeremy Corbyn's blokey Britain - where 'brocialism' rules", The Telegraph, 14 September 2015:
- Pin them down, and the brocialists defend their blokeishness by saying that gender issues are essentially a second-order of importance, that there are bigger struggles which define our politics today.
- 2015, Catherine Bennett, "Modern tribes: the brocialist", The Guardian, 26 September 2015