himpathy

But this isn't because the problem of himpathy is rare. On the contrary -- it's so common that we regard it as business as usual.

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, →ISBN, page 196:

For too long we have clung to the idea of “himpathy”, as Washington Times journalist Irin Carmon so perfectly described it at the writers' festival.

2018 May 13, Helen Pitt, “Drop the 'himpathy': Clarion call of Sydney Writers' Festival's #MeToo moment”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Examples of “himpathy” abound. Cosby was buoyed by public support for decades, even as more than 60 women accused him of sexual assault.

2019 December 18, Anne Kingston, “Will Harvey Weinstein's big show produce ‘himpathy’?”, in Maclean’s:

(feminism) Inappropriate sympathy given to men or boys, especially those who are guilty of sexual transgressions.


aunt-in-law

Between uncle and aunt-in-law, or uncle's wife, you have a connection of affinity, and you have the same between aunt and uncle-in-law, or aunt's wife. [sic]

1871, William Lindsay, Inquiry into the Christian law, as to the relationships which bar marriage, page 86:

(nonstandard) The wife of one's uncle or aunt (parent's sibling).

2009 August 28, contributor, Petunia Dursley, Harry Potter Wiki
Petunia would later become an aunt-in-law to Harry's wife Ginevra Weasley and a great-aunt to Harry and Ginny's three children; James Sirius, Albus Severus,

(nonstandard) The aunt of one's spouse.
The aunt of one's husband.

(nonstandard) The aunt of one's spouse.
The aunt of one's wife.


bedwench

She reminded herself that she was a captured prize, not one of his bedwenches.

1999, Roxi Ashe, Spell Weaver, section 203:

2000, Andrea Sharkey, Legends of Power, page 57, emphasis original.
He wants me, enough to chase; I am more than a bedwench or secretary.

Twice he had tried to assuage his aching loins with the well endowed bedwench, finding little satisfaction.

2012, Sharon Margolis, Swan Maiden, page 138:


bed wench

(historical) A low-status concubine, often a slave or captive.


biomythography

Blend of biography + mythography, coined by feminist Audre Lorde.


bridge bunny

(television, science fiction, slang) An attractive female character who serves on the bridge of a spaceship on a science-fiction television show, as eye candy.


ogle-in

From ogle; compare sit-in (“form of peaceful protest”).

(historical, 20th century) A feminist form of protest in which a crowd of women would jeer at men seen as looking lecherously at women in public.


en-proverb

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

Women have great influence on their male partners or husbands and can have anything done for them.

women have great influence on their male partners

estira més un pèl de figa que una maroma de vaixell

tira più un pelo di fica che un carro di buoi

literally a pussy hair draws more than a ox-drawn cart

un pelo de concha tira más que una yunta de bueyes


walking mattress

en-noun

walking mattress (plural walking mattresses)

Humorous alternative explanation for the acronym WM (“woman marine”), implying that she is hypersexual.

(military, slang, derogatory, offensive) A female marine.


womban

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nipple shield

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From nipple + shield. First use appears c. 1799 in the writings of Michael Underwood.

A defence for the nipple worn by a breastfeeding woman.


homopatriarchy

Social subsystem in which cisgender homosexual men predominate over other LGBTI people.

homopatriarcat

dominance of homosexual males over other LGBTI people.


trans-identified male

trans-identified male (plural trans-identified males)

Abstract: This thesis addresses the multiple ways that trans-identified males experience gender, masculinity, and identity. In this ethnographic project, seven trans-identified males living in the Triangle of North Carolina speak about their daily experiences and share their personal narratives to reveal diverse masculine identities.

2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities


Bonney's blue

Named after British gynaecological surgeon Victor Bonney (1872–1953).

(gynaecology) An antiseptic solution used to sterilise and stain the vagina, cervix and surrounding skin during gynaecological procedures, and therefore reducing postoperative infection.


sister-out-law

From sister + -out-law, by analogy to sister-in-law.


mother-out-law

From mother + -out-law, by analogy to mother-in-law.

The old Cape Cod commune-istas had caught up enough with my mother out-law and were now asking after notable events in the lives of her offspring.

2006, Harlyn Aizley, Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All! (Social Science), →ISBN, pZgDAQAAQBAJ, page 36:


Stiwanism

Coined by Molara Ogundipe, from STIWA (Social Transformation Including Women in Africa) + -ism.

A form of African feminism focusing on the institutionalized structures that oppress women as a result of colonial and neocolonial history.


nego-feminism

Introduced in 2004 by African feminist Obioma Nnaemeka in her article Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa's Way. Apparently derived from negotiation feminism; Nnaemeka also explains it as no-ego feminism.

A form of African feminism that emphasizes negotiation and compromise.


Aunt Jemima

From Aunt Jemima, a stereotypical black mammy used to advertise a popular American pancake mixture brand of the same name. American newspaper managing editor Chris L. Rutt is credited with coming up with the name, inspired by the song “Old Aunt Jemima” (written in 1875) after reportedly seeing a minstrel show featuring it in the fall of 1889. A British image in the Library of Congress, which may have been created as early as 1847, shows a smiling black woman named “Miss Jim-Ima Crow”, with a framed image of “James Crow” on the wall behind her; a character named “Aunt Jemima” appeared on the stage in Washington, D.C., as early as 1864.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.

Aunt Jemima#Character of Aunt Jemima
Chris L. Rutt
Old Aunt Jemima


cyberbride

A mail-order bride procured via the Internet.


`num`MeToo

→ Chinese: 米兔 (mǐtù)

→ Dutch: MeToo

Alyssa Milano
MeToo movement
Tarana Burke
Twitter

From the phrase me too, first used in this context by American activist Tarana Burke in 2006 and popularized as a hashtag by American actress Alyssa Milano on Twitter in October 2017.

These bizarre results, first spotted by the NBC reporter Ben Collins, are not the result of the latest #MeToo era investigation reporting.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

I wouldn’t publish ‘Lolita.’ What’s different today is #MeToo and social media — you can organize outrage at the drop of a hat.

2021 March 2, Emily Mortimer, quoting Dan Franklin, “How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Furthermore, he says, “in this #MeToo and post-Roe era [with the rollback of reproductive rights]^([sic]) we find ourselves in, the perceived risks associated with sex are higher, particularly for women.[…]

2023 April 26, Emine Saner, quoting Justin Lehmiller, “The rise of voluntary celibacy: ‘Most of the sex I’ve had, I wish I hadn’t bothered’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

McDonald's faces Me Too moment: Fast food giant is hit by allegations of sexual assault, racism and bullying as more than 100 staff including workers as young as 17 claim they are groped and harassed at branches across the country

2023 July 18, Eirian Jane Prosser, “McDonald's faces Me Too moment: […]”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-18:

(neologism) A feminist movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault.


head

old enough to bleed, old enough to breed

(derogatory, vulgar) Any girl who has started menstruating is old enough to have sex or start having children.


thealogian

One who studies the or a goddess, or the feminine divine, e.g. from a feminist viewpoint.


Lady Mayoress

en-noun

Lady Mayoress (plural Lady Mayoresses or Ladies Mayoress or Ladies Mayoresses)

Lady Mayoresses (plural)
Ladies Mayoress (plural)
Ladies Mayoresses (plural)

In 1904, Helen Currer Briggs, the Lady Mayoress of Leeds paved the way to providing free holidays for young children whose family income was less than a single pound. Since then it has been the right of every new Lady Mayoress to become the president of the charity.

2016 "Our Work" Leeds Children's Charity website

[His wife,] Azra, will support him as Lady Mayoress for the first six months of his term. His daughter, Aisha, will support him as Lady Mayoress for the second half of his term.

2019, The Lord Mayor of Manchester: Councillor Abid Latif Chohan:

The wife or other official female consort of a Lord Mayor


family woman

An adult female with a spouse and children to whose well-being she is dedicated.


ex-servicewoman

Coordinate term: ex-serviceman

A woman who used to be in the armed forces.


motherism

A proposed form of African feminism focusing on motherhood, nature, and nurture.


subdebutante

Coordinate term: debutante

This is the season of the subdebutante. These are the days when in shrill perfumed coveys they flutter through the houses and clubhouses of America's big cities. When summer comes they will disperse to the leisure of lakes, beaches and mountains. But now the subdebutante is dynamic, gregarious and at the peak of her plumage.

1941 January 27, “Subdebs”, in LIFE, page 75:

A young woman who has not yet made her formal appearance in society.


school dinner lady

school dinner lady (plural school dinner ladies)

The action is in support of schooldinner ladies who have been told by the county council that their holiday pay is being stopped.

[1982 May 25, “Pupils may be sent home”, in Herald Express, page 2:

Jill Bennett recreates her superb characterisation of a school-dinners’ lady with an appetite more for a bit of roly-poly than jam.

[1986 June 27, The London Standard, page 21:

(UK) A woman employed to prepare, serve or supervise school dinners.


TERFy

en-adj

TERFy (comparative TERFier, superlative TERFiest)

TERFier (comparative)
TERFiest (superlative)

Usually when I jump into the conversation it’s me defending trans* women against cis women who are acting a little bit TERF-y […]

2016, "Peter", quoted in T. J. Jourian, "'My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself': Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities", dissertation submitted to Loyola University, page 238

I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.

2018 October 18, Tori Truscheit, “The Rage of All Women”, in Slate:

After years of being shamed for their bodies, is celebrating their monthly moons and the power of their uterus inherently TERF-y?

2020, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, "Heterosexist Suspicion of a Queer Outsider", thesis submitted to the University of Guelph, page 46

(informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to trans-exclusionary feminism or those who hold such views.


TERFdom

Only do one better than Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—whose speech was sampled for that song and who was called out for TERFdom and transphobia—and move that logic beyond the sexes.

2018 July 10, Alex Zaragoza, “No time for TERFdom”, in San Diego City BEAT, page 8:

One of the things that snapped me out of it finally was a video by Natalie Wynn, aka [Youtuber] ContraPoints, titled “Gender Critical”, and she concludes that TERFdom is about the flimsiest cloak of feminist platitudes draped over disgust and hate.

2019, Philip Matthews, quoted in Tess Nichol, "TERF wars: Adopting - then abandoning - a 'cult-like' movement", Metro (Auckland), 7 November 2019

For a large number of us trans folk, Rowling's descent into the bowels of TERFdom has been distressing to watch.

2020 January, Anna Piper Scott, “JK Rowling Comes Out... As Transphobic”, in Melbourne Star Observer, page 17:

(neologism) The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.


a woman's work is never done

From a traditional rhyming couplet, found in at least two forms:
: Man works till set of sun,
: Woman's work is never done.
: From rise of morn to set of sun
: Woman's work is never done.

"Six o'clock, and working still! […] They say a woman's work is never done," remarked Ik Stanton, dropping into the easiest chair in the studio, "and for this reason, were there no other, your muse is evidently of the feminine persuasion."

1878, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 1, in A Face Illumined:

As Professor Myerhoff writes: "The adage 'A woman's work is never done' calls attention to the continuity of woman's tasks on a daily basis."

1979 April 1, Charles E. Silberman, “A Proper Way to Live”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-07-07:

According to the old maxim, a woman’s work is never done. It certainly never counts, a least not by the economic formulae that figure out the wealth of a nation.

2010 October 30, Antonia Zerbisias, “Feminomics: calculating the value of 'women's work'”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 2019-07-07:

They say a woman’s work is never done. If certain Brexiteers have their way, that might be truer than ever. […] [A] no-deal Brexit would mean a disastrous shortfall in care staff, which would force women out of the office and into unpaid social care roles, looking after elderly parents.

2018 August 7, Harriet Marsden, “Why should women do the hard, unpaid work after Brexit?”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2019-07-07:

Women generally work long and hard, especially as they often are responsible for housework and care roles in addition to paid work.


en-proverb

behind every successful man there stands a woman

/bɪˈhaɪnd ˌɛvɹi səkˈsɛsfl̩ ˈmæn ðɛə ˈstændz ə ˈwʊmən/

/bɪˈhaɪnd ˌɛvɹi səkˈsɛsfl̩ ˈmæn ðɛɚ ˈstændz ə ˈwʊmən/

behind every great man there stands a woman

A man’s achievements are made possible by the support and work of their wife or female partner.

وَرَاءَ كُلِّ رَجُلٍ عَظِيمٍ اِمْرَأَةٌ

men's success often depends on the support and work of their wives or female partners

hər uğurlu kişinin arxasında bir qadın dayanır

每個成功的男人背後都有一個女人 /每个成功的男人背后都有一个女人

měi gè chénggōng de nánrén bèihòu dōu yǒu yīgè nǚrén

jokaisen menestyvän miehen takana on nainen

tout homme qui réussit a une femme derrière lui

detrás dun gran home hai unha gran muller

ყოველი წარმატებული კაცის უკან ქალი დგას

q̇oveli c̣armaṭebuli ḳacis uḳan kali dgas

hinter jedem erfolgreichen Mann steht eine Frau

מאחורי כל גבר מצליח עומדת אישה

meakhoréy kol géver matslíakh omédet ishá

हर सफल पुरुष के पीछे एक महिला होती है

har saphal puruṣ ke pīche ek mahilā hotī hai

di belakang setiap pria sukses ada seorang wanita hebat

すべての成功した男の後ろに女がいる

subete no seikō shita otoko no ushiro ni onna ga iru

aiz katra veiksmīga vīrieša stāv sieviete

už kiekvieno sėkmingo vyro stovi moteris

por trás de todo grande homem existe uma grande mulher

za káždym uspéšnym mužčínoj stoít žénščina

за ка́ждым успе́шным мужчи́ной стои́т же́нщина

detrás de un gran hombre hay una gran mujer

bakom varje framgångsrik man står en kvinna

her başarılı erkeğin arkasında bir kadın vardır

đằng sau một người đàn ông thành công luôn có bóng dáng người phụ nữ

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world


behind every great man there stands a woman

behind every successful man there stands a woman#English

Synonym of behind every successful man there stands a woman (“men's success often depends on the support and work of their wives or female partners”)


captress

At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants.

Murmurs of expectation, like the purrings of hungry flame, arose from the nearest, who hoped to share in the good fortune of the sorcerer's captress.

1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 261:

Where did the notion that its captress should be a virgin come from? Again, this was likely to be an Indian trait.

2014, The Mahabharata, Volume 2: Book 2: The Book of Assembly; Book 3: The Book of the Forest, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 192:


traditional birth attendant

en-noun

traditional birth attendant (plural traditional birth attendants)

(medicine) A person who provides basic maternity care primarily from experience as well as the traditions and practices of a community.


leading lady

The type of conventionally beautiful and approachable woman who is perceived as being capable of playing female lead roles in movies or other productions.


femonationalism

femonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)

Coined by Sara R. Farris. Blend of feminism + nationalism, with the "o" patterned after homonationalism.

In similar ways, femonationalism describes the attempts of European right-wing parties, among others, to co-opt feminist ideals into anti-immigrant and anti-Islam campaigns.

2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187

Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.

2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019

The case of Switzerland is of particular interest to furthering the understanding of femonationalism, we argue, because contrary to the case studies presented by these other authors, Switzerland was never a colonial state.

2020 July, Dina Bader, Véronique Mottier, “Femonationalism and populist politics: The case of the Swiss ban on female genital mutilation”, in Nations and Nationalism, volume 26, number 3:

(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.


feminationalism

I claim that women were closely engaged in combining the feminized body with national politics, a feminationalism.

2015, Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942, →ISBN:

This rhetoric of Norwegian exceptionalism did not only work to strengthen already well-established forms of what Nazila Kivi (2015) has termed “feminationalism” in Norway, where feminist rhetoric is used to buttress nationalist politics and self-understandings in ways that figures other geographies and populations as always already “backwards.” The framing of the anniversary also seemed to suggest that feminism is nothing but history in Norway, and that the job ahead is to export the Norwegian model of feminist equality to so-called less developed countries.

2016, Mathias Danbolt, “Breaking the Waves. Tuning into Queer History with Frank’s Voluspå”, in Föreningen Lambda Nordica:

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez also introduced the notion of a “post-’Fifty Shades of Grey’ patriarchal heterosexuality” which combines feminationalism, homonationalism, white supremacist notions, ideas of eurocentric superiority and erotic capitalism.

2017, Mark B. Bibbert, Elisabeth Hill, Multiple Modernities–Multiple Gender Cultures, page 83:

In countries such as Denmark and Italy, xenophobic campaigns have taken on the form of ‘feminationalist’ rhetoric which claims that migration is undermining the rights and freedoms of the women in the destination countries. The discourse of ‘feminationalism’ is closely related to homonationalism in which the xenophobic right is claiming that migration is a threat to the rights of the LBGT community.

2017, Alison Treacher, “A feminism for the 21ˢᵗ century”, in Socialist Resistance:

We now see a kind of racism that argues that Christian/Western values are civilized and a basis for democracy, while ’their’ values are reactionary and undemocratic. In the same way, femonationalism and homonationalism have evolved, where it is claimed that the oppression of women and LGBT people only exists amongst ’foreigners’ (the muslims). Feminationalism does not imply a common struggle for freedom, but sees the state as a protector of ’poor’ women from ’foreign’ men.

2018, Socialistisk Arbejderparti (Denmark), “Global Migration”, in International Viewpoint:

(neologism) The association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.


gender critical

gender critical (plural gender criticals)

Word on the street is gender criticals have started using "male to trans" and "female to trans" to describe trans people...

2014 October 29, Danny Birb (@transvulcan), Twitter:

That Sedgwick's case for foundationalist gayness incorporates both the arguments and the premises avowed by Stock and the other gender criticals would likely unnerve everyone except for Reed.

2023, Grace Lavery, “The Egg and the Essay”, in Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128:

(informal) A person who holds gender-critical beliefs.


whisper network

whisper network (plural whisper networks)

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From the fact that the information is secret (whisper) and that it is a connection between multiple people (network).

Bluntly: the Loon is part of the whisper network, because there are a very few librarians and library technologists whose behavior in the Loon’s presence does not incline the Loon to trust them to treat a young, conventionally-attractive female professional like a human being rather than an object of either aggressive sexual interest or airy dismissive scorn. There are a few more the Loon would not trust to treat a queer person like a human being. And just because the Loon cannot presently think of any professional acquaintances capable of consciously racist acts hardly means that there are none.

2014 January 1, The Library Loon, “In which the Loon endorses anti-harassment codes of conduct”, in Gavia Libraria, archived from the original on 2015-04-07:

Since the police and most organizations are completely inept at actually doing anything about allegations of sexualized violence, women often depend on this whisper network to help keep them away from serial harassers and rapists who’ve never been held accountable.

2016 August 5, Siobhan O'Leary, “What do you do when your abuser is part of the whisper network?”, in Against the Grain, Free Thought Blogs, archived from the original on 2016-08-06:

The truth is whisper networks were never meant to be the end-all solution for harassment and abuse; they’re triage. We just want to stop the bleeding.

2018 February 6, Jessica Valenti, “When It Comes to Sexual Harassment, Are Whisper Networks Justified?”, in Marie Claire, Hearst Digital Media, archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

In one of her characteristic ironies, she underlines the necessity of these female whisper networks in Pride and Prejudice by having the heroine Elizabeth disbelieve everything she hears from other women about rake-masquerading-as-virtuous-man George Wickham.

2020 January 22, Elyse Martin, “Jane Austen’s Whisper Networks”, in Electric Literature, Pressable, archived from the original on 2020-08-15:

An informal network of women privately sharing information, typically of people alleged to be sexual harassers, abusers, or rapists.


tradwife

Ms. Jorgenson is being interviewed on Radio 3Fourteen, a white supremacist talk radio program; it is interviewing her because she considers herself a tradwife.

2018 June 1, Annie Kelly, “The Housewives of White Supremacy”, in New York Times:

Blond and blue-eyed, just like the #tradwife ideal, but her eyes held a fierceness that overshadowed her fame.

He notes that many “white supremacists call for 'tradwives'—traditional wives—to produce more white children” (ibid.), an association between misogyny and racism.

2019, William F. Pinar, What Is Curriculum Theory?:

I hate her, hate groups, incel, tradwives, the fact that I don't usually hate anybody, ...

2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, page 214:

The tradwife movement is one of the most concerning trends to have emerged in the past few years, with more and more women looking to switch their careers and independence for tending to hearth and home - and every will of their husbands.

2019 October 22, “'I want to submit to my husband like a 50s housewife': inside the controversial UK tradwife movement”, in Stylist Magazine:

(slang) A wife who fulfills a traditional gender role based on Western middle-class femininity of the mid twentieth century, often according to white supremacist ideals.


on the blob

Apparently a reference to the blobbing (i.e. dripping) of menstrual blood, likely following the model of on the rag.

I have no problems fucking wimin on the blob. But some of them do

1993 April 19, Sean McAfee, “The Great a.t. IRC Party, part III”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet), message-ID <1993Apr19.224852.14466@mtu.edu>:

Sweet's heroines are – well, unskinny; they eat lard, drink, smoke, ponce off the state, have huge dumps and go on the blob at inconvenient times.

1997 July 3, Nicholas Lezard, “Paperbacks”, in The Guardian, page A14:

Katie Can you stop staring at my tits please? […]
Jay She must be on the blob.

2012, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners: The Complete Scripts with Added Extras, Random House, page 285:

Personally CW can think of no tampon in the world it would trust while wearing a white dress, on the blob, at a glamorous media event.

2015 February 13, Caitlin Moran, “Celebrity Watch”, in The Times:

(British, slang, vulgar) Menstruating; on one's period.


radical feminist

radical feminist (plural radical feminists)

Then they were going to try to explain why, at a time when transgender rights are ascendant, radical feminists insist on regarding transgender women as men, who should not be allowed to use women’s facilities, such as public rest rooms, or to participate in events organized exclusively for women.

2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:

An adherent or proponent of radical feminism.


radical feminist

The last time a feminist of any standing published an attack on transgenderism as caustic as “Gender Hurts” was in 1979, when Janice Raymond produced “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.” Raymond was a lesbian ex-nun who became a doctoral student of the radical-feminist theologian Mary Daly, at Boston College.

Pertaining to or supporting radical feminism.


head

/ə ˈwʊmən wɪðˌaʊt ə ˈmæn ɪz laɪk ə ˈfɪʃ wɪðˌaʊt ə ˈbaɪsɪkl̩/

/ə ˈwʊmən wɪðˌaʊt ə ˈmæn ɪz laɪk ə ˈfɪʃ wɪðˌaʊt ə ˈbaɪˌsɪkəl/

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A well-known feminist slogan coined in 1970 by the Australian filmmaker, social activist, and writer Irina Dunn (born 1948); according to her recollection, adapted from the phrase “A man needs God like a fish needs a bicycle” which she read in a philosophical text. The original phrase appears to be “A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle”, coined by Charles S. Harris in 1955 and published in a 1958 article in the Swarthmore Phoenix. The phrase is often erroneously attributed to the American feminist journalist and social political activist Gloria Steinem (born 1934), but she disclaimed this in a letter to Time magazine published on 16 September 2000.

We found this anonymous contribution to International Women's Year on a wall at Forest Lodge: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

1975 January 25, “Column 8”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 42,779, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax & Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 8:

No matter how hip or how liberated I got to be, I could never really convince my deepest self that a woman without a man, at least when the music started, was like a fish without a bicycle.

1990, Jane Adams, Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty: How to Live Happily Ever After—Starting Right Now, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 107:

Women who are ideologically opposed to marriage would go along with Gloria Steinem's^([sic]) commonly quoted maxim: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." If, whatever your reasons, you are adamantly not the marrying kind, then it is important for you to make that clear to any man who becomes involved with you.

2009, Wesley L. Ford, “Safe Conduct: Guidelines for an Affair of the Heart”, in How to Pick a Lover: For Women Who Want to Win at Love, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 359:

By 1962, well before the so-called "sexual revolution" or even the feminist slogan "a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle," Helen Gurley Brown could write in Sex and the Single Girl, "I think marriage is insurance for the worst years of your life.["]

2012, Hanne Blank, “The Marrying Type”, in Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN:

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle," I said. "One of these days you're going to want another bicycle," she said, laughing.

2014 November, Mary McHugh, Chorus Lines, Caviar, and Corpses: A Happy Hoofers Mystery, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 28:

(figuratively, humorous, simile) A woman is capable of living a complete and independent life without a man.

Gloria Steinem
Irina Dunn
Nigel Rees
Swarthmore College

沒有男人的女人就像沒有自行車的魚 /没有男人的女人就像没有自行车的鱼

a woman is capable of living a complete and independent life

méiyǒu nánren de nǚrén jiùxiàng méiyǒu zìxíngchē de yú

een vrouw zonder man is als een vis zonder fiets

nainen ilman miestä on kuin kala ilman polkupyörää

une femme sans homme est comme un poisson sans bicyclette

eine Frau ohne Mann ist wie ein Fisch ohne Fahrrad

literal translation if quoting the English phrase

una donna senza un uomo è come un pesce senza bicicletta

남자 없는 여자는 자전거 없는 물고기와 같다

namja eomneun yeoja-neun jajeon'geo eomneun mulgogi-wa gatda

en kvinne uten mann er som en fisk uten sykkel

kobieta tak potrzebuje mężczyzny, jak ryba potrzebuje roweru

uma mulher sem um homem é como um peixe sem uma bicicleta

o femeie fără bărbat este ca un pește fără bicicletă

женщина без мужчины — всё равно что рыба без велосипеда (ženščina bez mužčiny — vsjo ravno što ryba bez velosipeda)

женщина без мужчины — всё равно что рыбка без зонтика (ženščina bez mužčiny — vsjo ravno što rybka bez zontika)

žena bez muškarca je kao riba bez bicikla

una mujer sin un hombre es como un pez sin bicicleta

en kvinna utan en man är som en fisk utan en cykel

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle


itty bitty titty committee

the itty bitty titty committee (canonical)

Coined for the rhyme. First attested on American musical comedian Rusty Warren's record Rusty Rides Again (1967).

Oh yeah, there's lots of little Nanny-No-Knockers – in fact, we've got our own group. It's called the I.B.T.C., that's the itty bitty titty committee.

1967, Rusty Warren, Rusty Rides Again, Jubilee Records, side B, 09:02

Sandy smiled dryly. "When my friends were getting breasts, but eons before I was, they would say I was on the Itty-bitty Titty Committee. […]"

1997, Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, Random House, page 46:

"I’m gettin’ me some implants … so I can get my Pamela Anderson on." ¶ "I heard that, cause you know you belong to the itty bitty titty committee."

2011, Sheila Copeland, Saved and Single, Kensington Books, page 298:

"But please try to keep your expectations in check. As a former member of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee myself, I can understand your hype. But I still don't want you to feel crushed if they don't get as big as you'd like."

2017 January 24, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 907 - Committee:

When I failed to develop large breasts, my father asked me if I planned to join the "Itty Bitty Titty Committee".

2019 March 8, Rachel Inberg, “My life in sex: the woman who grew up in the porn industry”, in The Guardian:

(vulgar slang, humorous, often derogatory) Women or girls with small breasts, viewed collectively.


gender-critical

en-adj

gender-critical (comparative more gender-critical, superlative most gender-critical)

more gender-critical (comparative)
most gender-critical (superlative)

As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.

2013 August 2, Elizabeth Hungerford, “Sex Is Not Gender”, in CounterPunch, retrieved 2022-12-06:

I don’t believe that all, or even most, ‘gender-critical’ editorials genuinely set out to make our lives harder: more that their writers don’t realise the impact they can have in the structure outlined above.

2014 August 6, Juliet Jacques, “On the ‘Dispute’ Between Radical Feminism and Trans People”, in New Statesmen, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

This sort of mistreatment reflects the ideologies of trans-exclusionary radical feminism, popular amongst certain gender-critical lesbian groups.

2016 June 29, Polly Anna Rocha, “Pride & Prejudice”, in San Antonio Current, San Antonio, Texas: Euclid Media Group, retrieved 2022-12-06, page 32:

Selina Todd, professor of modern history at Oxford University, agrees. Recently one delegate cancelled their place at a humanities conference she was due to speak at when they saw her name on the agenda. “It was because the person was concerned that ‘transphobic’ views would be expressed. I assume that this referred to my gender-critical stance.”

2018 October 30, Anna Fazackerley, “UK Universities Struggle to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Trans Rights Row”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

Maya Forstater, a former researcher and writer for a thinktank, is likely to appeal against a ruling that her gender-critical feminist beliefs could not be protected, Chilton suggested.

2020 January 3, Damien Gayle, “After Tribunal’s Ethical Veganism Ruling, What Is a Protected Belief?”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(originally UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.


femvertising

SheKnows Media, a digital marketing company, put out a survey in 2014 to find out precisely how women felt about femvertising ads.

2016, Joseph Quinlan, Jackie VanderBrug, Gender Lens Investing:

The wave of femvertising has only served to intensify since the launch of #IWILLWHATIWANT, with recent campaigns by Audi, H&M, Brawny, and even Barbie all attempting to capitalize on the femvertising trend.

2019, José Antonio Muñiz Velázquez, Cristina M. Pulido, The Routledge Handbook of Positive Communication:

Is International Women's Day today little more than an excuse for 'femvertising' as brands co-opt messages of equality and empowerment as means by which to flog us stuff?

2019 March 8, “How 'femvertising' edged out feminism - 'Two separate women’s movements which have always been in conflict'”, in The Independent:

The use of feminist messages to advertise products to women.


velocipedestrienne

What is wanted in this respect is a dress that shall be suitable for either riding or walking. This, we think, has also been achieved, and that by a lady. Let us try to describe the dress for a velocipedestrienne.

1869, The Modern Velocipede: Its History and Construction, George Maddick, page 11:

Ladies, in riding the bicycle, commonly use the modest and appropriate costume worn by them in calisthenic exercises and in the gymnasium. Another very suitable dress for the velocipedestrienne has been thus described[…]

1869, The Velocipede; Its History, Varieties, and Practice, Hurd and Houghton, page 89:

When a lady velocipedes she destroys all this kind of subtile interest, and thereby loosens one of the sweetest and firmest bonds of existence. Every velocipedestrienne ought to compelled to wear blue stockings.

1869, Joseph Firth Bottomley, The velocipede, its past, its present & its future, by J.F.B., Simpkin, Marshall & Co, page 81:


PAWG

In 2010, more scientific research was done regarding butts. Scientists from the University of Oxford discovered that women with larger than average butts are not only more intelligent but also highly resistant to chronic illnesses. White America took note because there aren’t many things they love more than a good scientific study. The PAWG movement began.

2014 December 26, “Butts Are the New Boobs in White America”, in Complex:

Raylynn describes herself as a top 'PAWG', which is an acronym for 'phat ass white girl'.

2016 June 22, “Instagram star with an eye-popping 70 INCH behind insists her curves are real as she flaunts her incredible shape to silence the doubters”, in Daily Mail:

25. You love overweight white women and use the term “PAWG.”

2017 September 11, “If You're a Black Man Watching Football This Sunday, Here Are 25 Things I Already Know About You”, in The Root:

You have the PAWG/shapely white girl ass thing going on, how many compliments do you get from it on the daily?

2017 October 17, “NBA Glamour Girl! Ginger Firecracker! Q and A With Australian Instagram Model, Jess McLeod”, in INSC Magazine:


great-grandniece

A great-granddaughter of one's sibling, a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's great-granddaughter: fraternal great-grandniece. Sister's great-granddaughter: sororal great-grandniece)


daughter-out-law

From daughter + -out-law, by analogy to daughter-in-law.

A very special note of appreciation goes to Rose (Tee) and Dale Heiberger for including me in their crazy family as their daughter-in-law or daughter-out-law as the case may be.

1998, Ardel Marie Thomas, Victorian Monstrosities:

I can't be bothered to keep track of her doings, as long as she stays clear of my daughter-out-law and of the baby.


anti-pegasister

(fandom slang) An adult female anti-fan of the animated television series, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.


sprunk

My chiefest spite to clergy is, / Who in these days bear sway; / With fryars and monks, with their fine sprunks, / I make my chiefest prey.

a. 1753, The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood, verse 12:


TERFism

Contemporary TERFism, or trans exclusive radical feminism, extends such arguments to deny the validity of transgender identities.

2018, Aniruddha Dutta, “Allegories of Gender: Transgender Autology versus Transracialism”, in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, volume 39, number 2, page 90:

The validation always comes after the lifelong internalization of transphobic messages we see constantly promulgated in the mainstream media, the numbing regularity of TERFism being splashed across op-ed pages and uttered by prominent feminists, […]

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 239:

TERFism is clearly unpopular with Zillennials.

2019, Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, unnumbered page:

(usually derogatory) The beliefs on trans people held by TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).


child-great

child-great (comparative more child-great, superlative most child-great)

more child-great (comparative)
most child-great (superlative)

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Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide.

1605 [1578], Josuah, transl. Sylvester, “The Third Day of the First Week”, in Devine Weekes and Workes, translation of La Premiere Sepmaine by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, lines 693–696:


door bitch

[…] as the daunting gladiator figures at the entrance whisked me past the crowd and the speed-filled 'door bitch'.

2011, Paul Eldridge, Sex, Drugs & Techno, page 56:

I was paid a lucky £7 an hour, which was why I took this job as opposed to the door bitch job at Ronnie Scott's, which paid an unlucky £8 an hour.

(colloquial, derogatory) A woman employed to ensure guests pay the entrance fee and meet the dress code at a live venue, club, etc.


plural wife

I fretted about dying an old maid—which in Mormondom starts at around 21 years old—and ending up a plural wife to a stranger in heaven.

2012, Steve Cuno, Joanne Hanks, It's Not About the Sex, My Ass, →ISBN, page 27:


salt out

en-verb

salt out (third-person singular simple present salts out, present participle salting out, simple past and past participle salted out)

salts out (present singular third-person)
salting out (participle present)
salted out (participle past)
salted out (past)

If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.

1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29:

[…] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus.

2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279:

(medicine, transitive) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.


three-way girl

Three-way girls offered the widest array of services. One twenty-two-year-old prostitute declared to an undercover vice investigator in New York City, "I am a three-way girl."

2014, Jessica R. Pliley, Policing Sexuality, page 192:

A female prostitute who offers oral, vaginal, and anal sex.


musclegirl

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From muscle + girl, modeled after muscleman.

Musclegirl Alex Rain (Sue Price) awakens on the East African plain with no memory, having been shot clean through the head.

1997, Edmond Grant, Ken Fox, The Motion Picture Guide: 1997 Annual (The Films of 1996), page 265:

She thinks of Samantha Grimes, and suddenly Julie raises her fists above her head, elbows bent, and assumes a musclegirl pose, admiring herself in the cloudy silver glass.

1998, Terry Hermsen, Robert Fox ·, Teaching Writing from a Writer's Point of View, page 170:

She wasn't the ginormous musclegirl I'd envisioned.

2007, Gena Showalter, Red Handed, page 92:

A strong and muscular girl or woman, especially one who is a bodybuilder.


ladymag

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Coordinate term: lad mag

Slowly and mechanically, without really seeing anything, I leafed through the pages of a big fat silky ladymag.

1972, Jean Shepherd, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, unnumbered page (originally published in Car & Driver)

OK, despite a hefty cleavage, the standard cover girl for a trashy ladymag stops short of nipple exposure, but that doesn't mean women's magazines (and, as we saw, even teen magazines) don't heavily 'laddify' their content.

2014, Holly Baxter, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media, page 263:

Namely, that perhaps the national media was poised to acknowledge en masse the smart, serious work already being published by the ladymags—and that perhaps ladymags might be reinventing themselves for an increasingly savvy audience, sick of pandering.

2014 May 12, Alexis Sobel Fitts, “The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan”, in Columbia Journal Review:

(informal) A magazine which focuses on women's issues and interests.


vagenda

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Walter Bishop: And I have no idea how to bring our Olivia back. It's all because of that temptress. She tricked my son with her carnal manipulations and he fell right into her vagenda.
Astrid Farnsworth: Vagenda?
Walter Bishop: Like Mata Hari using her feminine wiles to accomplish her evil ends. And I too fell prey. She used my stomach to get through to my heart.

2010 2 December, Jeff Pinkner & "J. H. Wyman, "Entrada", episode 3-8 of Fringe

I love a good jokey punk band—especially if that band is Childbirth and has a serious feminist vagenda.

2015 May 5, “This Week Ahead”, in Seattle Weekly, page 30:

But they have come along just as the campaign is stirring up operatic male angst over being left behind by history, as captured by the viral roadside sign that warned of Hillary Clinton’s “vagenda of manocide.”

2016 September 13, James Poniewozik, “Sitcom Men, Grappling With a New Reality on TV”, in New York Times:

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An ulterior and often sinister scheme involving female sexuality or feminism.


femcel

From fem(ale) + -cel; a relatively new consolidation.

Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.

2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck:

While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.

2020 February 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why do we only care about incels when they are men?”, in The Guardian:

A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]

2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:


femsymp

From feminist sympathizer; modelled on earlier comsymp.

Nothing is less persuasive than a tirade from a rigidly orthodox heretic. I'm a sympathizer, a femsymp if you will, but some feminists come on so abrasive they alarm even me. I can only lament the impression they must make on the undecided.

1974, Jane Howard, A Different Woman, page 380:

A friend of mine says that this is because women have been systematically excluded by a hard core of "good old boys," but that strikes me as knee-jerk femsymp rhetoric, and anyway it doesn't change the facts.

1991, Keyboard, volume 17, numbers 7-12, page 7:

[…] you few loathsome Lecters and Dahmerites, you libertarians, deer hunters, anchormen, bureaucrats, convicts, bleeding hearts, bikers, femsymps and harassers, Rotarians and punks. Welcome, over-mortgaged yuppie.

1994, Time, volume 143, numbers 1-9, page 120:

(slang, derogatory, rare) A person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.


gender-critical feminism

sex they were assigned at birth
birth sex

A branch of feminism that regards sex as a binary and unchangeable biological characteristic, rejects the concept of gender identity, and generally views transgender people as belonging to the sex they were assigned at birth.


victim feminism

Coordinate term: power feminism

In the field of sexuality, victim feminism is anti-sexual whereas power feminism believes that what every woman does with her body and in her bed is her own business.

2005, Drude von der Fehr, Anna Jonasdottir, Bente Rosenbeck, Is There A Nordic Feminism?, page 216:

Wolf offers a long list of attributes of victim feminism that she detects in a host of feminist activities, institutions, and texts.

2007, Alyson Manda Cole, The Cult of True Victimhood, page 50:

[…] in the service of new narratives in which victim feminism is presented not just as obsolete or wrong-minded, but as perniciously victimizing.

2014, Rebecca Stringer, Knowing Victims, page 33:

(derogatory) A form of feminism predicated on the idea that women are weak or lack agency and therefore need to be protected.


cisgirl

Crossdresser, drag queen, transwoman or cisgirl laying it on thick, nobody had the guts to ask.

2017, K. C. Alexander, Nanoshock, unnumbered page:

Simply to say this novel clearly illustrates that transgirls issues face the same issues of cisgirls, and then some.

2018, Mary Ann Harlan, The Girl-Positive Library: Inspiring Confidence, Creativity, and Curiosity in Young Women, page 68:

The notion of “puberty” in this context reduced various kinds of maturation that cisgirls typically experience down to a single threshold event, menarche.

2019, Ashwini Tambe, Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws, unnumbered page:


FemShep

Playing as FemShep hints that the game world's claims to gender equality may be overstated.

2017, Lynda Clark, “Commander Shepard”, in Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, Aubrie Adams, editors, 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, page 44:

Interestingly, this seems the reason why FemShep is considered to be one of the most popular heroines in gaming history (Cobbett 2012: online), or even one of gaming's first true feminist and feminine protagonists (Hillier 2011).

2018, Silvia Pettinni, “Gender in Game Localization: The Case of Mass Effect 3's FemShep”, in Irene Ranzato, Serenella Zanotti, editors, Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation, unnumbered page:

A reveal trailer for Mass Effect Legendary Edition went live several hours ago, and fans have been watching it over and over. As has Jennifer Hale, the voice actor who played the female version of Commander Shepard across all three games, or "FemShep" as the character was dubbed.
Though her performance made FemShep more popular with hardcore fans, the marketing for the original games tended to focus on the default "BroShep", voiced by Mark Meer. Until now. This trailer shows a montage of scenes from across the series, and while BroShep is there—that's him macking on Miranda—there's more screen-time devoted to FemShep.

2021 February 2, Jody Macgregor, “FemShep finally gets her due in Mass Effect Legendary Edition trailer, Jennifer Hale extremely stoked”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 2021-02-03:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.


bridesmatron

From bride + -s- + matron, by analogy with bridesmaid and maid of honor, matron of honor.

In the celebrated Aldobrandini fresco-painting, found in the baths of Titus, the bride is seated veiled on a bed, with the pronuba or bridesmatron near her, whilst the bridegroom sits at the foot of the bed.

1854, Erotica. The poems of Catullus and Tibullus, and the Vigil of Venus, a prose tr. with notes, by W.K. Kelly. To which are added the metrical versions of Lamb and Grainger, and a selection of versions by other writers, page 49:

The banquet ended, the bride was escorted to the nuptial couch (Lectus genialis) by Pronubae, bridesmatrons, who differed from the bridesmaids of modern times only in the respect that they were married ladies who had been united to only one husband (Univirae).

1867, The Poems of Valerius Catullus, page 233:

Sallie Adele Pendleton, the maid of honor wore pink satin covered with georgette, and the bridesmatrons, Mrs. Leo Gatlin and Mrs. Wilbur Groom both wore gowns of pink georgette, all carrying bouquets of Columbia roses in the light and darker shades.

1920, The Independent, volume 43, page 6:

A badly defaced panel shows a Roman marriage ceremony (H. 19% in. [49.2 cm.]). The contracting couple are clasping their right hands, while the officiating bridesmatron stands behind them with her hands on their shoulders.

1924, The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, volume 19, page 241:

Lois Gill, B K, wore an enchanting bridal gown and Mrs. Charles McConville (Barbara Reifel), B K, and Diane Lancaster, B K, were bridesmatron and bridesmaid.

Mrs. Bobby Pechal of Temple was bridesmatron, Miss Annette Pyle of Houston served as bridesmaid.

But Elagabalus solemnly went through a form of marriage with Zoticus and insisted that someone should act as “bridesmaid or bridesmatron.”

1958, The Caesars: Might and Madness, page 240:

Mrs. Dean Webb was bridesmatron and Harold Klusman was best man.

Huey and her cousin Terry Kwong were bridesmatron and bridesmaid respectively.

Miss Helen Hale, sister of the bride, served as maid of honor, while Miss Ann Dougan, daughter of Chief Claim Agent J. W. Dougan, was the bridesmaid and Mrs. Andrew Hurst of Roanoke, was the bridesmatron.

1970, Norfolk and Western Magazine, page 297:

Attending the bride in gowns of pastel green trimmed with white daisies were Mrs. Patricia Parks as Matron of Honor and Judy Williamson and Karen Allbert, sisters of the bride, as bridesmatrons.

[…] F. Meikle and the groom’s cousin, Miss Bonnie Robertson, were bridesmatron and bridesmaid.

1973, Lenna Gowdey, Our Sire's Monument: The Merrithews of America, page III:

The bridesmaid, Miss Joan Spellman of Denton, and bridesmatron , Mrs. Karl Linke, Jr., wore gowns of sea green and amber.

1982, Ancestry and Descendants of Johann Dirk Eilers, 1815-1885, Pioneer Settler, Johnson County, Nebraska, page 78:

Their good friends Maurice and Lora Dell Freed served as best man and bridesmatron.

1983, Houder-Westcott Proud Connections, page 304:

The bridesmaid, Lois Anderson, sister of the bride, and bridesmatron, Mrs. Tom Latter, Jr., wore dresses styled like that of the maid of honor, but were a darker shade of blue.

1984, Marilyn Macklin, The Damgaard Family Album, page 121:

Wearing alike costumes of holiday red silk taffeta the attendants were Mrs. Donald Lind (Pat Stafford), the matron of honor; Mrs. Ronald Green (Gretchen Teal), the bridesmatron; bridesmaids Miss Carolyn Schimmel, Miss Marilyn Mousel of McCook and Sherrill Saylor, who was the sister's junior bridesmaid.

1985, John Galen Saylor, Helen Smith Saylor, A Smith Lineage: A Brief History and Genealogical Record of One Line of Descendants of Robert Smith, 1623-1985, page 282:

Bridesmatron was Shannon Packer. Bridesmaids were Barbara Bremer and Cindy Wilson.

1991, Association of Philippe Du Trieux Descendants Newsletter, page 12:

Bridesmatrons were Teresa Sessions, the groom’s twin sister, Eau Claire, and Kathy McCourt, the bride's sister-in-law, of Portland.

1994, The American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, volume 4:

Bridesmatron was Christa Wells Campbell from West Palm Beach in Florida and bridesmaid was Setsumi Togawa from Nashville in Tennessee.

1996, Journal of the Clan Campbell Society, page 35:

Miss Beverly Durbin of Kewanee, and Mrs. Paul Grieve of Toulon, were the bridesmaid and bridesmatron.

1998, Virginia M. Heaton Horton, Nicholas Blust/Von Blust from Baden, Baden, Germany to Freeport, IL, 1827-1998, page 75:

Out in the driveway, Tova smoothed the cleaner’s plastic over the sleeves of her green bridesmatron’s dress, the Tova Zissie dress.

2003 January 16, Risa Miller, Welcome to Heavenly Heights: A Novel; republished United States: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014 July 8, →ISBN:


feMRA

/ˌfɛm ˌɑː(ɹ)ˈeɪ/

On the websites we examined, it was very often feMRAs – female men’s rights activists – who were the strongest critics of rape culture, with activists like Straughan (2013), Fiamengo (2014) and Barbara Kay (2014a, 2014b) taking the lead in contesting feminist arguments.

2016, Lise Gotell, Emily Dutton, “Sexual Violence in the 'Manosphere': Antifeminist Men’s Rights Discourses on Rape”, in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, volume 5, number 2, page 74:

Lauren discusses these issues with FeMRAs – female men's rights activists – something that seems like a completely foreign concept in a book about saving feminism.

2017, Erin Emily Ann Vance, "Why Women Are Leaving Feminism", Flurt, Winter 2017, page 19

At the same time, ‘good’ women who actively participate in MRGs (‘feMRAs’, or female men’s rights activists) are (a) held up as evidence that men’s rights activism is not anti-women and (b) enrolled to ‘legitimize claims that would likely be viewed as being clearly more offensive if put forward by men’ (Gotell and Dutton 2016: 74).

2019, Ana Jordan, The New Politics of Fatherhood: Men's Movements and Masculinities, page 197:


dwarfmaid

"What? She be the Goldenaxe? No—that would rive the rock indeed. No dwarfmaid wields coldmetal–"

1988, Elizabeth Moon, Divided Allegiance, unnumbered page:

Throngs of people moved across the stone ground, though the dwarfmaid could still see the paving stones in many places.

2002, Douglas Niles, World Fall, page 43:

Many people do not know about mermen, and I did not know about dwarfmaids.

2018, Joseph R. Lallo, The Adventures of Rustle and Eddy, unnumbered page:


elfmaid

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She became known as 'the Fair' because of her beauty; many said that she looked more like an elf-maid than a hobbit.

1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, unnumbered page:

“Soth fell in love with a beautiful elfmaid, a disciple of the Kingpriest of Istar. […]

1985, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Spring Dawning, unnumbered page:

There were two others riding with Ruth Marlowe and the nameless paladin: an elfmaid and her human servant.

1997, Rosemary Edghill, The Empty Crown, page 663:


bridesmaiden

[…]; and so warmly did he share the partiality of Lady Mary and Lady Jemima for the gentle recluse, whom he persisted in calling “la belle au bois dormant,” that, when informed that though the funeral baked meats of the late Earl were not to furnish forth the marriage-table of his successor, the bombazine of the two noble spinsters was, in a decent time, to give place to bridesmaiden white, he was unable to resist a mild “hurrah!”

1855, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Mammon; or, The hardships of an heiress, volume 2, Hurst and Blackett, page 45:

And when a little bridesmaiden, uncommonly like you, / Comes into church so trippingly, all dress’d in white and blue, / You’ll discover, as you reach the middle aisle, / Why they linger’d, linger’d, linger’d at the stile.

“But it will be a deception,” urged Mòr. “I shall have to appear as chief bridesmaiden, whilst I am a married woman.”

1880, Agnes Smith Lewis, The Brides of Ardmore: A Story of Irish Life, page 258:

The Night wore all her starry gems of pride, / To be bridesmaiden to that peerless bride;

1885, Edwin Arnold, The Secret of Death: From the Sanskrit with Some Collected Poems, page 58:

There were errands to be done, he said, but as these “errands” always took him over to the little island of Urk, where lived a certain pretty Olla Tronk, who was Jacqueline’s great friend and her chosen bridesmaiden, the sisters naturally teased him a good deal about them.

1889, Susan Coolidge, Just Sixteen; republished Germany: Outlook Verlag, 2018, →ISBN, page 147:

That night, therefore, I told my cousin of my plans, and she greatly astonished and dismayed me by saying that she, too, would go with me and be bridesmaiden.

1896, The Primitive Methodist Magazine, volume 77, page 329:

And now, after all, here I had been married with ne’er a bridesmaiden at all!

1896, The Strand Magazine, volume 11, page 44:

Then turning to Mrs. Mummer, “And you smiling at her. Think you I want a bridesmaiden with a red nose?”

1915, Emilie Benson Knipe, Alden Knipe, Peg O' the Ring: A Maid of Denewood, Century Company, page 23:

I s’pose when we’re married you’ll have to, because I promised you you could be bridesmaiden.

1915, The Mount Holyoke, volume 24, page 344:

None other than Sally shall be my chief bridesmaiden, and none other than your dear self shall deck me for my wedding.

1927, St. Nicholas Magazine, volume 54, page 1025:

Young people of Sweden confess that they like moral, they follow the norm, they concentrate on education that pays and they want to marry in church with wedding gown, dress-coat and bridesmaidens.

1992 February 19, Marcus Gustavsson, “Re: systemet (was a whole bunch a things)”, in soc.culture.nordic (Usenet), message-ID <9288@chalmers.se>:

The bridesmaiden is 12 years old, and has yet to decide if she would rather sit with the bridal party or with her parents (we gave her that choice, and she's letting us know soon).

1996 May 29, Kelley Teahen, “wedding party spouses ‹ where to seat”, in alt.wedding (Usenet), message-ID <31ACAAD7.75BD@lfpress.com>:

Just tell your aunt & cousin that a bridesmaid should be between the ages of x and y - so the cousin could either be a flower girl, junior bridesmaid or bridesmaiden (as Megan/NutmegGA would say!).

1996 July 19, kellie whitehurst, “Re: Bridesmaids dilemma”, in soc.couples.wedding (Usenet), message-ID <4sp76g$8lm@qualcomm.com>:

And when the bridesmaidens had dressed her for bed / I stepped in amongst them and kissed the bride / And wished that I could have been laid by her side / And by that means I'd got me the favour.

1998 September 3, Dyrath, “Re: Sharing songs”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet), message-ID <3232.550T522T11922346@mail.telepac.pt>:

I wore my best cream dress and traveled in the coach accompanied by Lily, my bridesmaiden, and my soon-to-be new mama and papa.

2017 January 3, Jacey Bedford, Silverwolf, DAW Books, →ISBN:


CPD

en-noun

CPD (countable and uncountable, plural CPDs)

cephalopelvic disproportion
cephalopelvic disproportion#English

(obstetrics) Initialism of cephalopelvic disproportion.


trans-identified female

en-adj

trans-identified female (not comparable)


trans-identified female

en-noun

trans-identified female (plural trans-identified females)

(derogatory, offensive, dysphemistic) A trans man.


pick-me girl

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From the phrase pick me + girl, the implication being that such women, like someone pleading "pick me!", are desperate to be chosen over their putative competition.

Coordinate term: pick-me boy

Perhaps that's why Daniel saw her past the rest of the “pick me” girls.

2013, Stephen Hayes, Rock Haulter, eBookIt.com, →ISBN:

She kept changing her mind about which pick-me girl it would be from the Popular Group who would get to share her tent.

2020, Suzanne Daniel, A Girl in Three Parts, Knopf Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 55:

I have been called a handmaiden, a “pick me” girl, and been accused of vying for male attention.

2022 February 4, Marie Le Conte, “Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate”, in The New Statesman:

(originally African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A woman who asserts that she is unlike (and sometimes better than) most other women, in order to gain attention, approval, or validation from men.


Ah Soh

(Singapore, Malaysia, slang) sister-in-law (elder brother's wife)


violinist argument

The argument was first used in the essay “A Defense of Abortion” by Judith Jarvis Thomson, first published in the Philosophy & Public Affairs journal in 1971.

(philosophy) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical scenario, the kidnappee has the right to unplug themselves from the violinist at any time even if this will cause his death, because the violinist does not have a right to the kidnappee’s body.

A Defense of Abortion
A Defense of Abortion#The violinist
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Philosophy & Public Affairs


compulsory heterosexuality

In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.

1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633:

How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality? Who would teach my daughter whatever girls with fathers learned on these dates and dances, like how to wait for doors to be opened or hold a fork like an unmistakable catch?

2019 April 26, Asha French, “A ‘Daddy-Daughter Date,’ Queer Single Mom-Style”, in The New York Times:

(LGBTQ, feminism) The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.


mxn

From men + -x-. Respelled to use x (like e.g. Latinx) to convey that the word has a broad scope, and foregrounds people of color; compare womxn.

A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?

2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

Fundamental to these interventions is how gender is understood and how womxn¹ and mxn are positioned as (non)gendered beings. Central, too, is an understanding of the ways in which womxn and mxn are positioned within these interventions […]

2019, J. M. J. Marvuso et al., “Overcoming Essentialism in Community Psychology”, in Floretta Boonzaier, Taryn van Niekerk, editors, Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology, Springer, →ISBN, page 12:


mayhole

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[…] held an annual Mayhole Celebration, "a feminist takeoff on the maypole"; […]

1996, Harper's, volume 292, numbers 1748-1753, page 72:

Andreja Novakovic and Betty Draper used to dance around the “mayhole” in white dresses every spring […]

2010, James B. South, Rod Carveth, Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems:

(rare) A hole dug in the ground for dancing around on May Day, a feminist alternative to the supposedly phallic maypole.


PIH

(obstetrics) Initialism of pregnancy-induced hypertension.


penisocracy

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To prove you're not part of the dreaded penisocracy, pretend to share her beliefs.

2003 November, “How To Cure A Feminist”, in Maxim, page 58:

Some would go so far as to say that the workforce is a penis-ocracy rather than a meritocracy […]

2013 May 8, Helen Stringer, “The Looking Glass”, in Time Off, page 23:

What happened to the righteous indignation toward the Penisocracy? Now you want a male doctor?

2019, Therese Oneill, Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children, unnumbered page:

(informal, derogatory) A government or social order dominated by men.


womanspeak

Women often punish men without even knowing it. For example, a woman may say, "This trash fills up quickly." This is woman-speak for, "Get up right now and take out the trash."

2012, Barry Cooper, Stopping the Epidemic of Divorce: Practical Steps to Stop Divorce in Its Tracks, unnumbered page:

"Come on, are you kidding me? Really?"
Brandon patted his chest, then the front pockets of his jeans. "Oh no. It looks like I forgot my woman-speak code breaker at home, so do you mind helping me out with a little translation on what I'm missing?"

2012, James L. Rubart, Soul's Gate, unnumbered page:

It was clear that this was womanspeak and that they were familiar with this term because there wasn't the customary smiles and laughs that usually follow such novel-type statements.

2014, Raymond D. Petty, Thug Love: Why Women Are Attracted to Bad Boys, page 95:

(derogatory or humorous) Communication by women viewed as nagging, critical, or shallow.


mommom

"My first flyfishing experience was in the early 1960s when my grandmother, Margaret Glidewell, taught me and all of her grandchildren to fish," she says. "My fondest memories are of my youth, when I was five or six, staying at the cabin and fishing next to my Mommom, as we called her."

2006, Cecilia Kleinkauf, River Girls: Fly Fishing for Young Women, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:

In 2005, I was privileged to be at my grandmother's bedside when she went Home to be with Jesus. My “Mommom” had only confirmed with me a year earlier, ...

2018, Heather DeJesus Yates, All The Wild Pearls: A Guide for Passing Down Redemptive Stories Heather DeJesus Yates, Bridge Logos Inc, →ISBN, page 24:

Similar to the generational pattern observed in my mommom's and grandfather's relationship, ...

2020, Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter PsyD, Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope, and Resisting Drug Addiction, Literary House Publishing, →ISBN:


feminar

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teleabortion

teleabortion (countable and uncountable, plural teleabortions)

Teleabortions, where a woman has a phone consultation with a doctor and is then sent the medications required, are available everywhere but South Australia. In WA, a teleabortion requires a referral from a doctor.

2019 August 1, Caroline Zielinski, “What are the laws on abortion in Australia?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(medicine) The practice of using teleconsultation to assist a patient in aborting a pregnancy.


biofeminism

The view that women are biologically superior to men


himpathetic

Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.

Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:

But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]

2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:

This was picked up and repeated by women in the media who were “himpathetic” to the idea. Trump's win “gives us an opportunity to reflect on how badly misogynist forces can distort our thinking and bias our reasoning” (Manne 2019, 250).

2019, Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed, she will often face punishment and reprisal — whether from him, his himpathetic supporters, or the misogynistic social structures in [society].

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 11:

(feminism) Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


himpathize

en-verb

himpathize (third-person singular simple present himpathizes, present participle himpathizing, simple past and past participle himpathized)

himpathizes (present singular third-person)
himpathizing (participle present)
himpathized (participle past)
himpathized (past)

Blend of him + sympathize, or of himpathy + sympathize.

As Manne (2017) and Solnit (2017) have shown, we tend to sympathize (or 'himpathize') too much with men and their standpoints, and not enough with women and their standpoints. This results in a tendency to downplay men's transgressions ...

2019, Michelle Ciurria, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility, Routledge, →ISBN:

... move in the political realm, particularly when they are challenging male authority. Female misogynists have made themselves visible in this era, being willing to exonerate, himpathize, and dismiss other women's concerns and accusations, were crucial to the outcome.

2019, L. H. Blumenfeld, Female Misogyny and Political Power, in Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, page 4

So here, as elsewhere, we ought to resist the pressure to himpathize. Incels have generated many headlines recently. It's easy to understand why, given the egregiously violent acts of misogyny some incels have committed.

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:

(feminism, rare) To exhibit himpathy; to inappropriately sympathize with men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


all-girls

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(education, of a school) Providing instruction for female students only.

女子的

providing instruction for female students only


multimillionairess

It is safe to say that there is not one of our multimillionaires who could not be a peer, or at least a baronet, if he were an Englishman; and it is really a great hardship, and enough to make a multimillionaire hate and despise his native land, that he can be nothing of the kind in America. In the case of our multimillionairesses it is not quite so bad, for they can easily buy titled husbands; but even if their brothers bought titled wives, they could not share their titles, and become dukes and lords as the multimillionairesses become duchesses and countesses.

1896, Harper’s Weekly, volume 40, page 150, column 3:

Mr. Pfeiffer: When you were trying to show Mrs. Feuerring to be a wealthy woman, and how much money she has. You want Mr. Roosevelt to think she is a multimillionairess so that if he wanted to award $100,000, it wouldn’t be a penny out of her pocket.

1945, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs, page 2524:

At this point the multimillionairess appears and hands the check to the mayor.

1981, Samar Attar, The Intruder in Modern Drama, →ISBN, page 87:

Before giving up, she [Cathy Hughes] decided to try one more bank and they approved her.[…]Imagine if she hadn’t gone to that last bank? She wouldn’t have the media empire she has today, and have become one of the few multimillionairesses in our field.

2011, Shirley Strawberry, Lyah Beth LeFlore, The Strawberry Letter, One World Books (The Random House Publishing Group), →ISBN, page 15:


fishmongress

VERSES TO A BEAUTIFUL FISHMONGRESS

1890, Henry Lloyd, London: Humorous Readings, page 11:

They have quite ceased to act as saleswomen, and only some twenty or thirty fishmongresses come occasionally to buy.

1900, The Pilot: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Learning, volume 2, page 286:

Réjane, the beautiful fishmongress sold silver-grey mackerel, holding them up by the tail in her adorable fingers, a sight that would have ravished Velasquez, and did ravish me.[…]And some of me for the Alhambra, and some of me for the fish market at Granada and the loveliest of fishmongresses.

1942, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Memoirs of an Epicurean, pages 284, 286:

The inhabitants of Ballymena were the kindest I have ever known, they plied us with everything, but best of all with their goodwill, and I never pass through without seeing Jane McCurry, the fishmongress of the town, who always gives me a cup of tea.

1950, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, Pen & Sword, published 2007, reprinted 2011, →ISBN:

‘Fishmongress’ she calls me, as though Father’s trade was aught to be ’shamed of!”

1954, Anya Seton, Katherine, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

At the shore, the fish may be packed into jute sacks or doum-palm leaves baskets and taken to the nearest market place for sale to fishmongresses. The fish mongress^([sic]) then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10.[…]Figure 10. Fishmongress at Market Place, Diré, 1962.

1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, pages 28, 30:

Off Grafton St., the statue of the fetching fishmongress Molly Malone is referred to as “the tart with the cart.”

2000, Let’s Go: Ireland, →ISBN, page 117:

Nene Duseisi, the fishmongress, had just explained to her where she could find Ma Akuba: someone who would help her beloved Misi Elza and free her from the cursed Misi Sarith.

2010 [1987], The Cost of Sugar, HopeRoad Publishing, translation of Hoe duur was de suiker by Cynthia McLeod, →ISBN, revised in 1995:


ex-lesbian

A woman who considers herself to be no longer lesbian, usually due to pseudoscientific conversion therapy.


liberal feminism

en-noun

liberal feminism (countable and uncountable, plural liberal feminisms)

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism defined by its focus on achieving gender equality within the framework of liberal democracy and through political and legal reform


girls' night out

girls' night out (plural girls' nights out)

A night out for women.
An informal social gathering of women.

An arranged event at a bar or similar venue where only female patrons are allowed.


chitthi

From Tamil சித்தி (citti) (aunt, stepmother) (father's second wife, maternal younger aunt, paternal younger uncle's wife).

gloss

(India, informal) aunty; a friendly older motherly woman


chitti

(India, informal) Alternative form of chitthi


behind every great man is a great woman

Synonym of behind every successful man there stands a woman (“men's success often depends on the support and work of their wives or female partners”)


second lady

A woman that is or was a spouse of the political second-in-command or first in the line-of-succession of a political jurisdiction.


Second Lady

The Second Lady is the wife of the Vice President of the United States.

The female spouse of the second-in-command or first in the line-of-succession of a political jurisdiction.


animatrix

With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix.

1997, Journal of the History of Sexuality, volume 7, page 603:

She is a prose writer and essayist, a professor of complit & polisci at the University of Cluj, a cultural animatrix, a historian of violence and the gulag, and, to propose this (pilgr)image to the factotum, a formidable poet who said things no one else had the guts or flair to say in Romanian lit.

2008, “By a Tiger Writ: An Afterword”, in Joyce Mansour, Ruxandra Cesereanu, transl., Crusader-Woman, Black Widow Press, translation of Femeia-cruciat by Ruxandra Cesereanu, →ISBN, page 117:

Marie Antoinette, animatrix of the Petit Trianon, had a special fancy for the cotton toiles de Jouy, introduced into France in the 1770s, for chinoiserie or pastoral scenes in the style of Boucher.

2001, Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Nan A. Talese, →ISBN, page 220:

(rare) A female animator (one who animates something, brings something to life).

Video Video, organized by Marien Lewis, video artist and ex-animatrix of A Space, and Monumenta, organized by Stan Denniston, Dave Clarkson and Bernie Miller, two photographers and a sculptor and presently directors of YYZ, are only further proof that such centres have been the seedbeds and forums for advanced art in Canada over the past decade either feeding the commercial or establishment systems or fulfilling the responsibilities such systems have abrogated.

1983, The Canadian Forum, volume 62, page 48, column 1:

[title]

2003, Heidi Guedel, Animatrix—a Female Animator: How Laughter Saved My Life, iUniverse, →ISBN:

She conspired with Colorlab to unveil the rediscovery, which revealed a perfect continuity between the eleven-year-old’s use of film and the hand visible in her mature body of work: an animatrix with a childlike sense of joy and fun, a maker and pixilator of handmade objects, an animalier whose creatures could be monstrous as well as endearing.

2010, Dan Streible, “8. Media Artists, Local Activists, and Outsider Archivists: The Case of Helen Hill”, in Diane Negra, editor, Old and New Media after Katrina, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 164:

It was always God the Father who was the Animator with capital A. An argument can be made, however, for reconceiving the animator function as feminine. This animatrix model would resonate better with the medium’s long-established parthenogenesis narratives. The toons, then, become truculent children who eventually return to domesticity with the expectation that in their next incarnation they too will be life givers. Since there are many cinesthetic bodies in animation, who is to say that their genders are fixed by a priori assumptions? As readily as we may change the default genders of our avatars in video games, in virtual worlds, and perhaps in our everyday imagination, so may we shift the authorship of animation performance between animators and animatrices.

2013, Donald Crafton, “Coda: The Shadow of a Mouse’s Tail”, in Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation, Berkeley, Calif., […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 299:

(rare) A female animator (one who creates an animation or cartoon).


Miss Ann

(among African-Americans, derogatory) An arrogant and condescending woman, especially of European ancestry.


female chauvinism

During the five years I spent on and off dating apps, I described myself as a feminist on my profile, inviting some lovely messages including (and I quote) "third-wave feminism is all about female chauvinism" and "R U feminist?

2016 November 24, Suzannah Weiss, “Are You a Female Chauvinist?”, in Glamour:

A belief in the innate superiority of women over men.


abortion clinic

en-noun

abortion clinic (plural abortion clinics)


bull-dagger

(LGBTQ, slang) A masculine or butch lesbian. (See usage notes about dyke (“lesbian”).)


Mussulwoman

From Mussulman (as though the second component were English man), and woman.


kadin

From Ottoman Turkish قادین (kadın, “lady, matron, materfamilias; lady consort”).


obstetrician-gynecologist

The town had only one obstetrician-gynecologist.

(countable, medicine) A physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist.

szülész-nőgyógyász

a physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist


Anzaldúan

en-adj

Anzaldúan (comparative more Anzaldúan, superlative most Anzaldúan)

more Anzaldúan (comparative)
most Anzaldúan (superlative)

Of or relating to Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), American feminist and academic.


singing girl

She was a stranger in Palembang: she had fled from some one in in the interior, and had lately entered the house of Tumunggung Nora Wangsa; who was patron, also, of another singing girl present, called Sahdeeah.

1856, Walter M. Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden: And a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, Sampson Low Son & Company, page 213:

The Guide to the Yoshiwara gives a list of fifty-five singing-girls, besides a host of minor stars. These women are not to be confounded with the courtesans.

1870, “Tales of Old Japan, No. II—The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 14:

A girl is not considered disgraced if, for her parent's sake, she sells herself into the life of a "singing girl", geisha, or plain prostitute.

1943, Clyde B. Camerer, Peter E. Huth, “The Social Evil in Japan”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 41:

One was a revolt of the people of Medina, who had publicly withdrawn their allegiance to Yazid, in spite of his attempts to conciliate their leaders, in reaction, we are told, to the caliph's personal unsuitability for his office—charges such as enjoyment of singing girls and playing with a pet monkey are brought against him in the tradition.

2000 July 13, G. R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate, AD 661-750, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

A young woman of low social status (often enslaved) who performs as a musician and entertainer, especially in Asian societies.


Braidottian

Braidottian (comparative more Braidottian, superlative most Braidottian)

more Braidottian (comparative)
most Braidottian (superlative)

Of or relating to Rosi Braidotti (born 1954), philosopher and feminist theoretician.


freebleeder

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(slang) One who abstains from the use of tampons or other menstrual hygiene products during a period.


chapwoman

From Middle English chapwoman, by analogy with chapman.

(chiefly British, archaic) A woman who buys and sells; a female trader.


founding mother

en-noun

founding mother (plural founding mothers)

/ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðə/

/ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðɚ/

From founding (“who or that founds (establishes, starts) or founded”) + mother, modelled after founding father.

compound

Finally there is a comprehensive, well-documented life of founding mother Elizabeth Cady Stanton: In Her Own Right, by Elisabeth Griffith. Griffith focuses upon both the life and the social atmosphere which led to the beginnings of the first wave of American feminism.

1984 December 29, Michael Bronski, “Hot Off The Presses”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 10:

She (Audrey Lorde) is a member of the founding collective of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and a founding mother of SISA, Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa.

1986, Johnnetta B. Cole, All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind, →ISBN:

There could even be a case made for treating Jane Harrison as a founding mother of social science (Beard, 2000).

2003 April 21, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology, SAGE, →ISBN:

The initial founding mother, Eve, becomes a paradigmatic figure in later Jewish and Christian exegesis[…]

2020 October 21, Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:

A woman who founded (established or started) something.


NIPT

(obstetrics) Initialism of noninvasive prenatal testing.


Poor Clare

The Poor Clares... have also divided into Clarissines and Urbanists.

1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume XVI, page 711:

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

(Catholicism) A nun of the Poor Clares, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.


antigenderism

For this reason, there is also a mounting trend towards talk of 'antigenderism' (On the current shift from antifeminism to 'antigenderism', […])

2016, Brigitte Liebig, Karin Gottschall, Birgit Sauer, Gender Equality in Context: Policies and Practices in Switzerland, Barbara Budrich, →ISBN, page 250:

Historically, the current antigenderism is the latest sociohistorical expression of several waves of antifeminism since the nineteenth century, […]

2020, Heidemarie Winkel, Angelika Poferl, Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities: Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN:

Opposition to "gender ideology" or "genderism" (a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights, same-sex marriage, and feminism).


matrescence

Ultimately from Latin mātrēscēns, mātrēscō (“I become a mother”).

Thomas writes of matrescence as spiritual formation drawing analogies with the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

2013, Denis Walsh, Soo Downe, Intrapartum Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 2003:

Matrescence as a distinctive marker of birth centre care is all about fostering the 'becoming mother' journey.

2017, Denis Walsh, Sheila Kitzinger, Norman Ellis, Improving Maternity Services: The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Vol 2, CRC Press, →ISBN:

More recently, matrescence has re-entered the contemporary conversation through Alexandra Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist and researcher, ...

2020, Susan Hogan, Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood, Routledge, →ISBN:

We're here specifically to prepare you for these changes, so that you can take on matrescence as a wise woman. We want you to be calm and excited, ...

2021, Patricia Ladis, The Wise Woman's Guide to Your Healthiest Pregnancy and Birth: From Preconception to Postpartum, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

The process of becoming (and coming to inhabit the role of) a mother.


pinkpill

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From pink + pill, after the pattern of red pill, and because of the association of pink with femininity.

Interestingly, other pills, such as the purplepill and pinkpill, hint at some being undecided about whether dating is skewed in favour of one group or another and to femcels or female involuntarily celibates.

2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 10

Femcels often refer to "Pink Pill" philosophy, a similarly desolate understanding of human nature in which sexually undesirable women are the victims of society's in-built "lookism," an immovable prejudice based on physical appearance.

2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, “Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability”, in Suzanne Leonard, Diane Negra, editors, Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture, unnumbered page:

The former occurs within the context “have you taken the pinkpill yet” and the latter within “amalt what are your thoughts on this”.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Irina Levit, "'Foids have no soul, they are not human': A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group", thesis submitted to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, page 52

(incel slang) A notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.


power feminism

Coordinate term: victim feminism

In the field of sexuality, victim feminism is anti-sexual whereas power feminism believes that what every woman does with her body and in her bed is her own business.

2005, Drude von der Fehr, Anna Jonasdottir, Bente Rosenbeck, Is There A Nordic Feminism?, page 216:

A form of feminism that actively attempts to challenge and overcome discrimination against women.


gythja

(Germanic paganism) A priestess of the modern Norse religion.


caesarotomy

en-noun

caesarotomy (countable and uncountable, plural caesarotomies)

Caesarean section
Caesarean section#English


pick-me

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Alongside being called a “pick me” for watching sports, female athletes or even scholars are often called tryhards or told to just go back to the kitchen.

2021, Veronica Preaskom, "Gender Inequalities and the Lack of Support", Oakton Outlook (Oakton High School, Vienna, VA), May 2021, page 34

She sings against the mistakes of her husband, as in “Lemonade,” sharing his missteps with her fans, and this angers women stuck under the whims of men — the pick mes as the internet calls them.

2022 August 19, Annette Ejiofer, “Beyoncé is your bully’s favourite target and I know why”, in Toronto Star:

So, she uses her clothes to try to assert herself, to show that she is somehow different (even if her actions suggest otherwise) in a “pick me” sort of way.

2022 December 11, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, “What The White Lotus gets wrong with Portia’s Gen-Z wardrobe”, in The Guardian:

(slang, derogatory) Synonym of pick-me girl.


gigastacy

gigastacy (plural gigastacys or gigastacies)

gigastacys (plural)
gigastacies (plural)

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A forum commenter applied this definition to a woman he saw on social media, “...the foid [woman] had all the gigastacy [rated 10 on the scale] traits, she was hot, blonde, wore makeup, wears skimpy clothes, popular, parties, and her boyfriend is a muscular bodybuilder gigachad.”

2020, Annie Jones, “Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(incel slang) An exceptionally attractive Stacy.


niglette

nig(ger) + -ette, made to sound like piglet, or niglet + -ette.

Coordinate term: niglet

A nigger is being sought by police for enticing a 6 year old niglette
female into his car and forcing her to give him a blow job.

1999 July 12, B9 Predator, “Ya' missed this one, B10 -- TNB Ghana”, in alt.politics.nationalism.black (Usenet):

The brutha executes his baby momma, then puts the baby in momma's dead
arms, pour gas on the pair of them and FLAMBE!

2007 November 9, Way Back Jack, “Motown Cuisine -- Barbecued Niglette With A Side Order Of Her Momma”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

Niglette gets a special toy in her Wendy's Kid's Meal - Mammy Sow goes
into rage!

2017 March 8, Rick Mathers, “Wow, like WOW!”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(slang, US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black female child.


golden skirt

Table 12.3 indicates that 'the old boys' network' is replaced by the 'Golden Skirts'. The men with the most board positions are now those who are either themselves investors or investors' representatives, that is, the 'Gold Sacks'.

2013, Silke Machold, Morten Huse, Katrin Hansen, Getting Women on to Corporate Boards, page 73:

Huse (2011) investigated the characteristics of the “golden skirts” and identified four key clusters of well-educated and qualified women entering the boardroom.

2017, Cathrine Seierstad, Patricia Gabaldon, Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Gender Diversity in the Boardroom, volume 1, page 30:

(business, informal) A woman who is a director on several boards.


Urbanist

From Urban + -ist. In reference to Catholic nuns, from the promulgation of a separate rule of conduct by Pope Urban IV.

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

(Catholicism) A Poor Clare who follows or advocates the use of revised codes of conduct in place of the original precepts established by Saint Clare.


gendercrit

Trans people volunteer at community clinics and Planned Parenthood, while “gendercrits” partner with conservative groups like Alliance Defendinng^([sic]) Freedom who push anti-choice laws.

2019 May 16, Crystal Frasier (@AmazonChique), Twitter:

Baffles me how anyone can accuse gendercrits of lacking compassion. In their every action I see their compassion for other women, for children and for LGBT (yes T) people. Safeguarding is born out of compassion.

2020 September 9, SophieXY (@SophieXY44), Twitter:

Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.

2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter:

(informal) A person who holds gender-critical views.


wine mom

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But the photos very quickly did the rounds, and a man on Twitter decided to use the opportunity to body shame her. “In 10 months Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30s wine mom body,” he wrote.

2020 November 13, Alex Light, Annabelle Spranklen, “Is Billie Eilish's new music video a big FU to the body shamers, stalkers and paparazzi after being targeted for ‘putting on weight’?”, in Glamour:

(Canada, US, informal) A mother who drinks alcohol to relieve the stress associated with parenting.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


Femlock

Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).

2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112:

As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.

2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31

Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.

2021, Emma Byrne, How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) A female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.


blonde bombshell

blonde bombshell (plural blonde bombshells)

Derived from bombshell (“a very attractive woman”).

(slang) A stereotypical blonde woman who is very assertive and sensual but unintelligent.


abortion tourist

abortion tourist (plural abortion tourists)

Someone who travels for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.


abortion tour

"ABORTION TOURS" TO JAPAN are increasing. Despite more liberal attitudes and legislation in some parts of the United States, discretion still compels thousands of women annually to fly to Japan for the operations.

Abortion tours have already begun, most often to the former Soviet republics. The social and political atmosphere created by Catholic and neoliberal fundamentalists is encouraging discrimination, posing serious threats to freedom of ...

2018, Tanya Renne, Ana's Land: Sisterhood In Eastern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:

(rare) An instance of abortion tourism; a trip made for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.


gay liberation

(politics) An activist movement in the late 1960s to 1980s that advocates better treatment for gay men and lesbian women.


TRA

Tanzania Revenue Authority
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(Tanzania) Initialism of Tanzania Revenue Authority.


trans widow

When I began my public life as a transwidow, I knew who knew by the curious or pitying stares we got.

2012, Christine Benvenuto, Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On, unnumbered page:

Tinsel now writes about trans widows for feminist websites, and publishes their stories online under pseudonyms.

2021, Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, unnumbered page:

What the experiences of 'trans widows' of late-transitioning trans women are actually like, and what their own political needs are.

2021, Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, unnumbered page:

(gender-critical slang, offensive) A cis woman who feels her marriage ended or is at risk of ending due to her spouse coming out as a trans woman.