antiwomen

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ women.

Adjective

antiwomen (not generally comparable, comparative more antiwomen, superlative most antiwomen)

1. Prejudiced against women; misogynistic.
   • 1991 October 25, Michael Miner, “Burn This Poster?/Local News”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Val Glaser, the board member behind the 10-3 vote (with three abstentions) to quash the poster, told Windy City Times: "Playboy is antiwomen and thus antilesbian.

   • 2000, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Labels and Lyrics: Do Parental Advisory Labels Inform Consumers and Parents? : Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 16, 1998, page 50:

     13 years have passed from when we first started this labeling exercise and clearly, by anybody's definition, the music today is more violent, more hateful, more antiwomen than before — and these are top Billboard chart records.

   • 2010, Mark Brady, The Wisdom of Listening, page 242:

     The show did not adequately condemn such violence and it carried a commercial that was also antiwomen. The women's community was upset about this show and the commercial.

Synonyms

• antiwoman
• antifemale

Antonyms

• prowomen