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machismo

noun as in masculinity

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Too many Latino males, the professor said, are “embracing a hyper-individualized sense” of machismo.

Many pundits expect that this election will feature a bigger-than-ever gender gap between women, mobilized to support Vice President Kamala Harris because of her stance on abortion, and men, drawn to Trump’s blustering machismo.

Sheinbaum’s ascension to the presidency culminated decades of battle for equal rights in a nation with a long legacy of machismo — and where women didn’t win the right to vote until 1953.

In Mexico — a nation with a long legacy of machismo — women did not win the right to vote until 1953.

“There’s a hint of misogyny, of machismo there,” she said in one interview.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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