alsoChauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. The term is derived from the undocumented Nicolas Chauvin, whose legend made him out to be a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte whose fanatical zeal for his Emperor induced him, though wounded seventeen times in the Napoleonic Wars, to continue nevertheless to fight for France. It is claimed he yelled in the Battle of Waterloo when the French were finally defeated: "The Old Guard dies but does not surrender!", implying blind and unquestioned zeal to one's country [or other group of reference].
The origin and early usage indicate that chauvinisme was coined to describe excessive nationalism, and the original French term retains this meaning today. The term entered public use due to a satirical treatment of Chauvin in the French play La Cocarde Tricolore (The Tricolore Cockade).
The term in English now usually means Male chauvinism, while an equivalent for the original meaning is jingoism.
alsoFemale chauvinism or supremacism is the belief that females are superior to males. It is the opposite of male chauvinism.
One particularly pernicious form of female chauvinism propragated by radical gender feminists is the false idea of female moral superiority. McElroy notes that all men are considered unreformable rapists, wife-beating brutes and useless as partners or fathers to gender feminists. By contrast, gender feminists view women as innocent victims who never make irresponsible or morally questionable choices.
Men see that in regard to strength, relative size and tradition, the only factors that matter, they are superior, women think they can out-think us, It's not hard to out think a chimp.The word does not require a judgment that the chauvinist is right or wrong in his opinion, only that he is blind and unreasoning in coming to it, ignoring any facts which might temper his fervor. In modern use, however, it is often used pejoratively to imply that the chauvinist is both unreasoning and wrong.
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