Gynocentrism

There’s some confusion around the word gynocentrism and it’s meaning, so this piece will explore a little discussed part of the term: -centrism. This suffix makes a restrictive demand, i.e., that women are most important interest we might hold. The Cambridge dictionary describes centrism the following way: CENTRISM: The fact of having a particular type of person, …

What’s in a suffix? taking a closer look at the meaning of gyno–centrism Read More »

According to a recent poll only 18% of U.S. people consider themselves feminist.1 On that account we can expect readers of romance novels to comprise not more than 18% feminists, and likely far less due to the fact that feminists disparage traditional approaches to romance…. at least according to their rhetoric. A more generous National Geographic/Ipsos survey2 …

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As Max O’Rell noted in the year 1900, men tend to exert intersexual frame within a larger intersexual frame of gynocentrism of which they are unconscious, while deluding themselves that they are guiding the entire interaction.  “The best thing that can happen to a man is to be ruled by his wife; but she should rule him …

Frame Within Frame: A Gynocentric Misstep Read More »

‘Stealing a man’s heart’ might not be all its made out to be.