binarist

English

Etymology

From binary +‎ -ist.

Noun

binarist (plural binarists)

1. One who believes in binarism or in a binary.

   Gender binarists believe that everybody is either male or female, with no middle ground.

Adjective

binarist

1. Binaristic; exhibiting or advocating binarism.
   • 2006, Christopher Vasantkumar, Ethnicity's Entanglements: Intersections of Minzu and Development in China's "Little Tibet":

     While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms.

   • 2007, Cheryl Stobie, Somewhere in the double rainbow: representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels, Univ. of Natal Pr., →ISBN:

     While Kohler's text is more binarist, circumscribed and pessimistic, Behr's text offers readers an understanding of the anxieties, hypocrisies, choices and complicities which soiled all under apartheid; […]

   • 2009, Sarah Street, British National Cinema, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 216:

     […] Potter became disillusioned with the avant-garde as a filmic mode for political and/ or feminist goals, and with Orlando aimed at a more comprehensible narrative and a less binarist conception of gender.

   • 2018, Vlad Strukov, Sarah Hudspith, Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization, Routledge, →ISBN:

     The different ways of mythologizing Tolstoy indicate a return to more binarist modes of thinking on the cultural plane, which threatens the dialectical relationship between the universal and the particular (Adorno 1991).

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