Meaning of machismo

machismo: Form of popular philosophy according to which male is superior in everyday practice to women, and therefore has an obligation to keep it, protect it and your needs. When the male exerts violence against women it is not sexism but crime; a male never hurts the female.; I want to clarify some concept of those discussed in this entry. Equality feminists and the true Democrats and any sensible person with half a brain does not mean that all have to be the same handsome, so high or that all have the same IQ or the same economic level. The equal moral value of every human person means all we have the same dignity and the same rights, and that is why nobody should be discriminated against by their sex, nationality, their religion, their social or economic status or any other and that, therefore, everyone should have the same equality of opportunities. True human equality means as: equality in dignity, equal rights ( human rights of the universal declaration of 1948 ) and equal opportunities.; Machismo is the mentality and attitude of foolish some men and women who defend the intellectual and moral superiority of man over woman, based exclusively on the historical of that fact since disappeared Matriarchy men have social power. You have the power doesn't mean to be superior and less when that power is exercised despotically, as it has often happened. In developed societies, I believe that in this sense, but always things are changing is some old. Some want to equate feminism with sexism when it isn't so feminism does not defend the superiority of nobody but the equality of all.; MACHISMO:ACTITUD AGGRESSIVE OR VIOLENT MALE AND FEMALE SUPERIORITY.