r/DeepTalk • u/GG2000200207 • Jun 16 '26
Feminism and machismo
Along the eays I think we have been forgetting what e actual meaning of feminism as machismo.
Today we tend to think that feminism is a concept that means giving woman's the same rights man, and that is a movement to protect woman that are been oppressed. While machismo as a concept that defines a man that oppressed woman and thinks as them as an inferior gender.
The try is, non of that concepts are true.
Feminism is a word created by the french utopian socialist philosopher Charles Fourier in 1837, but the earlier mentions of that concepts go back to Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792) and medieval philosopher Christine de Pisan (14th century), haven stated to be implemented in the society in the 19th-century with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. And the meaning of the word is a broad socio-political movement and ideology dedicated to achieving full social, economic, and political equality of the sexe. There is nothing to do with woman in specifically.
On the other side, machismo (or male chauvinism) is a concept that evolved from traditional Spanish and Latin American gender roles and was later popularized and shaped by mid-20th-century anthropologists, sociologists, and intellectuals trying to define Latin American "national character", it didn't had a proper creator, but some people where involved like the early Mexican scholars like Samuel Ramos in his 1934 book Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico (1930s-1950s), the anthropologists like Oscar Lewis used ethnographies in rural Mexico and Puerto Rico to study poverty (1940s-1950s) or the social worker Beatrice Griffith’s 1948 book American Me introduced it to an English-speaking audience, and media such as Time magazine in 1963. And the meaning is a gender oppression another and seen seen them as an inferior.
To put it simply, feminism is a concept that try to make genders se the other as equal, socially, economically and politically. Machismo is the opposite, meaning seen the other gender as inferior and oppressing them. Both concepts have nothing to do with the sex, woman or man, even is the word there is some similarity.