Word: phallocentricism
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But we, the viewers, are left with a feeling of loss, of mystery. Where is Merle? Has he been left behind, or has he chosen his solitary condition as toiler? Has he been marginalized by a phallocentric culture, or empowered by his decision not to penetrate The Barn's confines...
Because everything's relative. (Or, philosophical skepticism in more academic circles.) This is the most common argument driving both multiculturalism and political correctness. It says: If you're intolerant of different beliefs and lifestyles, you're not only being arrogant (e.g. ethnocentric, phallocentric, etc.) in thinking that your values are...
Women artists through the '40s and into the '50s in New York City were the victims of a sort of cultural apartheid, and the ruling assumptions about the inherent weakness, derivativeness and silly femininity of women painters were almost unbelievably phallocentric. Thus Peggy Guggenheim, the first major collector...