femismo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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, published 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fêmea + -ismo. Formed by analogy with machismo.
Noun
[edit]femismo m (plural femismos)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- machismo m
Related terms
[edit]- femista m or f
Further reading
[edit]- “femismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024