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Qutzupalotl

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3. It is, but he wasn't the first to besmirch it.
Sun May 31, 2020, 05:59 PM
May 2020

Chauvin is where we get the word chauvinism.

By itself, it just means excessively patriotic; but with a gender, it means a believer that one gender is superior to another (male chauvinist).

History and Etymology for chauvinism
French chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, character noted for his excessive patriotism and devotion to Napoleon in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniard's play La Cocarde tricolore (1831)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chauvinism

(Not trying to be a smarty pants here. I remembered that factoid from watching Gloria on “All in the Family.”)

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