English

Noun

brocialist ‎(plural brocialists)

1. (slang, pejorative) A male socialist or progressive who downplays women's issues or displays a macho attitude.
   • 2013, Richard Seymour, quoted in Laurie Penny, "Laurie Penny on Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman's place in the revolution", New Statesman, 2 November 2013:

     My experience is that ‘brocialists' don’t openly embrace patriarchy; they deny it’s a problem.

   • 2014, Marc Tracy, "How to Talk to a 'Brocialist'", New Republic, 8 January 2014:

     Often, brocialism manifests at left-wing powwows. Someone raises a feminist grievance. The brocialist instructs her that she is distracted from the paramount issue, namely class.

   • 2015, Cathy Newman, "Welcome to Jeremy Corbyn's blokey Britain - where 'brocialism' rules", The Telegraph, 14 September 2015:

     Pin them down, and the brocialists defend their blokeishness by saying that gender issues are essentially a second-order of importance, that there are bigger struggles which define our politics today.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:brocialist.

Synonyms

• brogressive

Related terms

• brocialism