• Femismo

    Full definition of femismo

    Noun

    femismo

    (uncountable)
    1. (informal, rare) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
      • 1996, 13 October, westel username, Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts, 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, 7 July, Epona username, first time post, 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 9780761818038, 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?

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