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cybersexism en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + sexism.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Online participation in sexism.
    • And while social media is a common method used to disseminate these examples of supportive mainstream articles, it is also unfortunately a space which enables abuse, misogyny and harassment, otherwise known as cybersexism or trolling. 2015, K. Mendes, SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media:
    • Chapter 9 situates these optimistic appraisals of the democratic potential of new media in relation to a darker side of cyberspace—the proliferation of cyberracism, cybersexism, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and systemic surveillance. 2012, M. E. Hawkesworth, Political Worlds of Women:
    • The personal is still political, and cybersex and cybersexism are often too easily commingled. 2008, John C Hawley, LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1104: