Dictionary

femosphere en · NOUN

Etymology

From fem + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of manosphere.

Meanings

1. (Internet, neologism) The totality of blogs, websites, and communities associated with conservative feminists and femcels.
   • Similarily, the femosphere possesses intellectual mouthpieces who cloak reactionary perspectives with an intellectual and scientific façade. 2025, Cécile Smmons, CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It, unnumbered page:
   • The femosphere similarly seeks to understand the “hardwired” nature of men—FDS claims that the majority of men are “sex-driven, low effort, and entitled.” 2024, Jilly Boyce Kay, “The reactionary turn in popular feminism”, in Feminist Media Studies:
   • As a constituent community of the ‘femosphere’, we argue that Trufemcels mirrored many of the bleak affects and reactionary, fatalistic, ‘pilled’ discourses of the manosphere. 2024, Jacob Johanssen, Jilly Boyce Kay, “From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies:

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Relateds

manosphere