radfem en · NOUN
Etymology
Clipping of radical feminist, treated as a compound.
Meanings
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(derogatory, slang, sometimes) A radical feminist.
"How come a radfem like you didn't keep your last name after you got married?" Mosko asked.
1999, Michael Jahn, Dorian Yeager, & Barbara Paul, A New York State of Crime, Worldwide, →ISBN, page 39:In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast […]
2003, Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 103:It was passionate trans women activists online whose strong advocacy of their right to exist as women in the world showed me just how dehumanising the trans-hostile rhetoric is from some radfems about them.
2018 November 28, Viv Smythe, “I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened”, in The Guardian:Dr. Brimacombe firmly believed that just because she was a radfem, there was no need to dress in drab. She was frilly and feminine in the peachy-pinky, frou-frou frock and matching heels recommended by her fashion consultant.
2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 91:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| radfems | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (4)
fr radfem (Translations) · es radfem (Translations) · cmn 激女 (Translations) · pl radfem (Translations)