English edit

Etymology edit

pro- +‎ sexist

Adjective edit

prosexist (not comparable)

  1. (rare) In favour of sexism.
    • 1980, Sociological Abstracts, volume 28, page 1139:
      Prosexist symbolization was present throughout Western society; feminism used scientific knowledge & social scientific methods to criticize & explain these symbolizations.
    • 1990, Alan Gilbert, Democratic Individuality[1], page 154:
      Walzer's critigue of sexism could be be explained and justified, against a conventionalist prosexist alternative, by my account of moral explanation.
    • 2014, Raymond F. Paloutzian, Religious Orientation and Authoritarianism in Cross-cultural Perspective[2], page 185:
      However, this scale was shortened to 30 items (16 prosexist and 14 antisexist statements) by Parker (1996), based on pilot work, because a small sample of Canadian university students judged 10 of the original statements to be inappropriate in the mid-1990s.