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femspeak

femspeak noun: the characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.

Noun

femspeak (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.
    • The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women.1980 December 15, Robert Hughes, “An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon”, in Time
    • The Bergers assert that “the family is a problem”, and note that the concept of 'gender roles' is merely “femspeak” – a technique for arguing that the assignment of roles within the family is arbitrary and that it can/should be changed, so as to advance women's welfare (p 64).2005, Ann Oakley, The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science, The Policy Press, →ISBN, page 44

Origin of femspeak

From fem + -speak.

Questions about femspeak

What does femspeak mean?
Femspeak means the characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.
What part of speech is femspeak?
Femspeak is a noun.

Words near femspeak in the dictionary

  1. fems.
  2. FemShep
  3. femslash
  4. femslasher
  5. femslashers
  6. femspeak
  7. femsplain
  8. femsplained
  9. femsplainer
  10. femsplainers
  11. femsplaining

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