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supersexist en · ADJ

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Etymology

From super- + sexist.

Meanings

1. Of, relating to extreme levels of sexism.
   • This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world. 2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:
   • Or, as U.S. welfare rights leader Johnnie Tillmon put it, welfare is “like a supersexist marriage. You trade in a man for the man” (1972). 2010, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, The Feminization of Poverty in Rich Nations, page 15:
   • Devaney heads back to the bedroom, and I can hear her rummaging through drawers. “I'm cold,” I say. “Plus, can I respectfully add that this is supersexist?” 2016, Cheryl Della Pietra, Gonzo Girl: A Novel, page 83:

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