Femspeak
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse. derogatory, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From fem + -speak.
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