cryptosexist

English

Alternative forms

• crypto-sexist

Etymology

crypto- +‎ sexist

Adjective

cryptosexist (not comparable)

1. (rare) Covertly sexist; not obviously sexist.
   • 1975, Arts Magazine, volume 50, page 9:

     Much work of this kind has been appearing of late, especially made by women, so locked into formerly cryptosexist methodologies and iconographies is this art.

   • 1994, Paul Lawrence Farber, The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics‎^[1], page 151:

     His other motives, whether crypto-sexist, racist, vegetarian, or whatever, need not concern us.

   • 2014, Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth‎^[2], page 153:

     All things considered, however, most CMV proponents would likely borrow from Warren's critique of the logic of domination: the moral problem with humane farming, it could be argued, is that it relies upon a system of animal husbandry that remains despotic and prone to oppressive backsliding as it perpetuates speciesist hierarchy in a crypto-sexist vein.