femismo en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of female + machismo.
Meanings
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(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:
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Translations (3)
es hembrismo (strong femine pride) · de Femismus (strong femine pride) · pt femismo (strong femine pride)