So you married a sexist chauvinist…Now what?

As defined by my handy dandy free dictionary app, chauvinism isn’t solely used to describe men who are disgustingly sexist—ok the app didn’t say ‘disgusting,’ that bit was all me. Chauvinism, in fact, is defined as “zealous and aggressive patriotism” as well as “the denigration, disparagement, and patronization of either sex based on the belief that one sex is inferior to the other…”

The main entry for sexism on the other hand, is “attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles.” So for those of you eyeballing that title and thinking it redundant, I tell you it is possible to use both terms and not have it mean “woman hater, woman beater.”