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femismo en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of female + machismo.

Meanings

  1. (informal, rare, uncountable) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
    • 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. 1996 October 13, westel [username], “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet):
    • i'm not doing any meds. perhaps it's my femismo that keeps me saying no to meds, perhaps it's that i don't want to mask other things. 1998 July 7, Epona [username], “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic (Usenet):
    • 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? 2000, Marilyn Maxwell, Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in American Fiction, University Press of America, published 2000, →ISBN, page 117:

Coordinates

machismo

Translations (3)

es hembrismo (strong femine pride) · de Femismus (strong femine pride) · pt femismo (strong femine pride)