The practice or tendency to worship women, treat them as goddesses, or hold them in excessive reverence.
From Greek gynē (woman) + -latrīa (worship), the noun form of 'gynaeolater,' describing the system or practice rather than the individual person.
Medieval troubadours and courtly love poets were essentially practicing gynaeolatry—they wrote thousands of poems treating women as unattainable divine beings, which ironically kept women on pedestals rather than treating them as equals.
Worship or excessive reverence of women; used dismissively in 19th-20th century critiques of feminism, often to pathologize support for women's equality.
Avoid—pejorative framing. Use 'advocacy for gender equity' instead.
["feminist advocacy","gender equity movement"]
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