Hegemonic Scourge of the Patriarchy
Glossary term
/ˌhedʒ.ɪˈmɒn.ɪk ˈskɜːdʒ əv ðə ˈpeɪ.tri.ɑː.ki/
Magniloquent name for male domination when ordinary patriarchy will not sufficiently fill the banner.
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From the books (1 passage)
…of the rights of inherently oppressed women who were said by those present to be suffering under the hegemonic scourge of the patriarchy. The budgerigar had evidently not undertaken more than the most cursory exploration of the coils and bifurcations of the impenetrable thicket of gender theory, for she singularly failed to engage with the dialectic of the theoreticians in that assembly, rather contenting herself with the idle repetitions of…