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FART

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Etymology

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Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.[1][2][3]

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Noun

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FART (plural FARTs)

  1. (derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
    Synonyms: GC, GCF, gendercrit, gendercritter (derogatory), TERF, terven
    • 2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter[1]:
      Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.
    • 2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter[2]:
      “Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.
    • 2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility[3], page 118:
      Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:FART.

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  1. ^ Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118
  2. ^ Sanja Bojanic, Mónica Cano Abadía, & Valentina Moro, "Feminist responses to populist politics", European Journal of English Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, page 127
  3. ^ Effie Ophelders, "The Transvestite, the Transsexual and the Trans Woman: The Transmisogynist Representation of Transgender Killers in Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Mantis", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 25

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