femismo
English
Etymology
Noun
femismo (uncountable)
- (informal, rare) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
- 1996 October 13, westel [username], “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce[1] (Usenet):
- All feminists' talk about a woman's superior ability to identify and express their feelings is just that, TALK. It's just more femismo designed to inflate the deflated self-esteems of mean spirited women.
- 2000, Marilyn Maxwell, Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in American Fiction, University Press of America (2000), →ISBN, page 117:
- Do these women, like Damon Cross in Wright's The Outsider or Bigger Thomas in Native Son, succeed in establishing their own autonomy only through violence, forging a "femismo" or female counterpart to the "machismo" brutality of a Mailer protagonist?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femismo.
Coordinate terms
Translations
strong femine pride
Portuguese
Etymology
fêmea + -ismo. Formed by analogy with machismo.
Noun
femismo m (plural femismos)
Related terms
- femista m or f
Coordinate terms
- machismo m
Further reading
- “femismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024