feMRA

English

Etymology

Blend of female +‎ MRA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɛm ˌɑː(ɹ) ˈeɪ/

Noun

feMRA (plural feMRAs)

1. A female men's rights activist (MRA).
   • 2016, Lise Gotell, Emily Dutton, “Sexual Violence in the 'Manosphere': Antifeminist Men’s Rights Discourses on Rape”, in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, volume 5, number 2, page 74:

     On the websites we examined, it was very often feMRAs – female men’s rights activists – who were the strongest critics of rape culture, with activists like Straughan (2013), Fiamengo (2014) and Barbara Kay (2014a, 2014b) taking the lead in contesting feminist arguments.

   • 2017, Erin Emily Ann Vance, "Why Women Are Leaving Feminism", Flurt, Winter 2017, page 19:

     Lauren discusses these issues with FeMRAs – female men's rights activists – something that seems like a completely foreign concept in a book about saving feminism.

   • 2019, Ana Jordan, The New Politics of Fatherhood: Men's Movements and Masculinities, page 197:

     At the same time, ‘good’ women who actively participate in MRGs (‘feMRAs’, or female men’s rights activists) are (a) held up as evidence that men’s rights activism is not anti-women and (b) enrolled to ‘legitimize claims that would likely be viewed as being clearly more offensive if put forward by men’ (Gotell and Dutton 2016: 74).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:feMRA.

Anagrams

• Frame, frame, fream