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名詞

machodom (uncountable)

1. The realm, sphere, or world of the macho; those who are macho, taken collectively
   • 1999, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Crossing:

     These boys are cast as heroes of American machodom, and machodom has a problem with gender. Perhaps because it is as ignorant as a post, machodom does not realize that armies and navies and sports teams from Achilles and Patroclus through Nelson's navy to the Gulf War have been built on homoeroticism.

   • 2008, Ritch Calvin, Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity:

     A foodie, domestic male is not a figure emasculated, but rather one of privilege, spared the humiliations and injurious defeats of machodom.