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cybersexism

cybersexism noun: online participation in sexism.

Noun

cybersexism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Online participation in sexism.
    • The personal is still political, and cybersex and cybersexism are often too easily commingled.2008, John C Hawley, LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1104
    • Chapter 9 situates these optimistic appraisals of the democratic potential of new media in relation to a darker side of cyberspace—the proliferation of cyberracism, cybersexism, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and systemic surveillance.2012, M. E. Hawkesworth, Political Worlds of Women

Origin of cybersexism

From cyber- + sexism.

Questions about cybersexism

What does cybersexism mean?
Cybersexism means online participation in sexism.
What part of speech is cybersexism?
Cybersexism is a noun.

Words near cybersexism in the dictionary

  1. cyberservices
  2. cybersex
  3. cybersexed
  4. cybersexes
  5. cybersexing
  6. cybersexism
  7. cybersexual
  8. cybersexualities
  9. cybersexuality
  10. cybersexually
  11. cybersexy

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