cot-quean stereotype
- noun
- Offensive
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[estereotipo arcaico y ofensivo sobre hombres que realizan tareas domésticas]
- The cot-quean stereotype has often been used to mock men who stay at home to care for children.
Examples
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Many reject the outdated cot-quean stereotype and embrace shared household responsibilities.
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He fought against the cot-quean stereotype by openly discussing his role as a homemaker.
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Don't fall for the cot-quean stereotype!
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The cot-quean stereotype often portrays men as incompetent in domestic tasks.
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He challenged the cot-quean stereotype by becoming the primary caretaker for his children.
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Many families are breaking the cot-quean stereotype by sharing chores equally between partners.
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The media plays a role in reinforcing the cot-quean stereotype by depicting men in domestic roles as unusual.
Synonyms
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A fixed, simple idea about a group of people or things that is often wrong
Antonyms
How Common
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- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
cot-quean + stereotype
The compound depends on the rare/archaic element 'cot-quean', which a B1 learner who knows common English words would almost certainly not recognise; knowing 'stereotype' only indicates a fixed belief but gives no clue to what 'cot-quean' refers to. Because the crucial constituent is opaque or unknown rather than transparently compositional, the overall expression's meaning cannot be derived from its parts.
Etymology
Cot-quean stereotype comes from older words: cot (a small bed or home) and quean (an old word for a 'woman'). One popular story says people would mock a man who stayed at home by calling him a 'woman of the cot', so the phrase came to mean the idea that a man doing housework is not 'normally' a man.