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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).

   "The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?"

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"The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?"

Etymology

From female + -ist coined in 1999 by Barbara Ehrenreich.

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