femspeak

English

Etymology

fem +‎ -speak

Noun

femspeak (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.
   • 1980 December 15, Robert Hughes, “An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon”, in Time:

     The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women.

   • 2005, Ann Oakley, The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science, The Policy Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     The Bergers assert that “the family is a problem”, and note that the concept of 'gender roles' is merely “femspeak” – a technique for arguing that the assignment of roles within the family is arbitrary and that it can/should be changed, so as to advance women's welfare (p 64).

   • 2007, Robert Menzies, “Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men's 'Rights' and Feminist 'Wrongs' in Cyberspace”, in Susan B. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, Hester Lessard, editors, Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 83:

     According to Warren Farrell, an Orwellian “lace curtain” of governing “femspeak” is virtually indistinguishable from the propaganda machinery of tyranny states.