Citations:femismo

English citations of femismo

Noun: "(informal, rare) exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo"

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• 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?