pseudofeminist
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[edit]pseudofeminist (comparative more pseudofeminist, superlative most pseudofeminist)
- Seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence. [20th c.]
- 2019, Mia Fischer, chapter 5, in Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State[1], Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →LCCN, page 176:
- The ads deployed pseudofeminist rhetoric with implicit references to Title IX and sexual assault, casting trans students as patriarchal threats to women’s hard-won rights: “The end of girls’ sports? Her dreams of a scholarship shattered, your 14-year-old daughter just lost her position on an all-girl team to a male … and now she may have to shower with him. Are you willing to let that happen?”
Noun
[edit]pseudofeminist (plural pseudofeminists)
- One who is apparently, but not actually, a feminist. [20th c.]
- 2007, J. Serano, Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity.:
- These pseudofeminists consistently preach feminism with one hand while practicing traditional sexism with the other.