gender baiting

English

Alternative forms

• gender-baiting

Noun

gender baiting (uncountable)

1. The enforcement of gender norms by disparaging or marginalizing those that violate them.
   • 1999, Janis S. Bohan, Glenda M. Russell, Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, page 103:

     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.

   • 2007, R. D. Bernard, Making Church Matter, →ISBN, page 58:

     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.

   • 2009, R. Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love, →ISBN:

     Otherwise one remains trapped in a false ideology that would confuse gender and politics, or in simplistic gender baiting that is more often than not mere name calling.

   • 2011, Mark Rifkin, When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty, →ISBN:

     Opposition to Indian policy here works through a form of gender baiting that appeals not only to white stereotypes of native masculinity but to dominant notions of dimorphic gender identity and its inherent fulfillment in the heterocoupling of marriage.