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pseudofeminist en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pseudo- + feminist.

Meanings

  1. Seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.
    • The ads deployed pseudofeminist rhetoric with implicit references to Title IX and sexual assault, casting trans students as patriarchal threats to women’s hard-won rights: “The end of girls’ sports? Her dreams of a scholarship shattered, your 14-year-old daughter just lost her position on an all-girl team to a male … and now she may have to shower with him. Are you willing to let that happen?” 2019, Mia Fischer, chapter 5, in Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →LCCN, page 176:

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pseudofeminist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pseudo- + feminist.

Meanings

  1. One who is apparently, but not actually, a feminist.
    • These pseudofeminists consistently preach feminism with one hand while practicing traditional sexism with the other. 2007, J. Serano, Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity.:

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Synonyms

fauxminist