Citations:vagenda

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Noun: "(slang, pejorative or humorous) an ulterior and often sinister scheme involving female sexuality or feminism"

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  • 2010 2 December, Jeff Pinkner & "J. H. Wyman, "Entrada", episode 3-8 of Fringe:
    Walter Bishop: And I have no idea how to bring our Olivia back. It's all because of that temptress. She tricked my son with her carnal manipulations and he fell right into her vagenda.
    Astrid Farnsworth: Vagenda?
    Walter Bishop: Like Mata Hari using her feminine wiles to accomplish her evil ends. And I too fell prey. She used my stomach to get through to my heart.
  • 2015, "This Week Ahead", Seattle Weekly, 5 May 2015, page 30:
    I love a good jokey punk band—especially if that band is Childbirth and has a serious feminist vagenda.
  • 2016, James Poniewozik, "Sitcom Men, Grappling With a New Reality on TV", New York Times, 13 September 2016:
    But they have come along just as the campaign is stirring up operatic male angst over being left behind by history, as captured by the viral roadside sign that warned of Hillary Clinton’s “vagenda of manocide.”

Noun: "(slang) a schedule or plan for feminist activism"

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  • 2013, Charlotte Harding, "Let's talk about ... sexism", Promenade (University of Sussex), page 7 (approx.):
    It's not cool, hip, or sexy to be sexist, so put gurrl power back on your vagenda and clue up on the 50 shades of feminism, ready to subvert these negative stereotypes creeping back into fashion and our everyday lives.

Noun: "(slang, pejorative) a hidden agenda that targets and/or exploits women"

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  • 2012, Holly Baxter & Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, "Women's magazines: exposing their vagenda", New Statesman, 14 May 2012:
    Fact is: Vogue has a vagenda, Cosmo has a vagenda, and even American teen mag Seventeen has a vagenda - and the vibe in there is not friendly.