femismo

English

Etymology

Blend of female +‎ machismo.

Noun

femismo (uncountable)

1. (informal, rare) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
   • 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.

   • 1998 July 7, Epona [username], “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic‎^[2] (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, published 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?

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

Coordinate terms

• machismo

Translations

strong femine pride

• German: Femismus m
• Portuguese: femismo (pt) m
• Spanish: hembrismo (es) m

Portuguese

Etymology

From fêmea +‎ -ismo. Formed by analogy with machismo.

Noun

femismo m (plural femismos)

1. female chauvinism, misandry

Coordinate terms

• machismo m

Related terms

• femista m or f

Further reading

• “femismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024