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cryptosexist en · ADJ

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Etymology

From crypto- + sexist.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare) Covertly sexist; not obviously sexist.
   • 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. 1975, Arts Magazine, volume 50, page 9:
   • 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. 2014, Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, page 153:
   • His other motives, whether crypto-sexist, racist, vegetarian, or whatever, need not concern us. 1994, Paul Lawrence Farber, The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, page 151:

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