1996 October 13, westel [username], “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce[1] (Usenet):
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.
1997 December 19, Mark Evans, “Re: It's Useless to Appeal to a Feminist's Conscience”, in alt.politics.correct[2] (Usenet):
This is "femismo", the equivalent of "machismo" but practiced by a woman. No different from the fool who knows nothing about internal combustion engines but things[sic] that having a dick makes him some sort of mechanic.
1998 July 7, Epona [username], “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic[3] (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.
2000, Marilyn Maxwell, Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in American Fiction, University Press of America (2000), →ISBN, page 117:
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?
