adventureress

Again, if we have dangerovs^([sic]) men in the humblest ranks, we have adventureresses of late years in all ranks.

1858 August 20, Newcastle Courant, number 9582, page 6, column 5:

I’ll foil them though, the mean adventureresses!

1871 May, “Mr. Fitz-Hume’s Experiment; and How It Succeeded”, in For Everybody, volume 1, number 3, Buffalo, N.Y., page [6], column 1:

And now from Dayton we hear concerning the operations of a notorous^([sic]) adventureress and impostor hailing from this place, who has been repeatedly exposed. […] A letter addressed to Deacon ⸻ of that place, by a person who doubted the young woman’s story, brought the information, on Tuesday, that she is a wandering adventureress who is playing the paralysis dodge in order to make money.

1871 August 25, The Fremont Weekly Journal, volume XIX, number 3[?], Fremont, Oh., page [2], column 5:

It is said that there are 60,000 “adventureresses.” “Adventureress” means almost anything.

1885 August 8, The Atchison Weekly Champion, volume 28, number 23 (Champion Series) / volume 31, number 25 (Squatter Sovereign Series), Atchison, Kan., front page, column 2:

Some months ago, writes a Paris correspondent, a couple of adventureresses were arrested for having worked a matrimonial agency, which was in reality an effective machinery for decoying men on the lookout for rich wives.

1887 May 6, “Matrimonial Decoy Duck. How Sharp-Witted Parisians and a Pretty American Made Money.”, in The Daily American, volume XII, number 3,889, Nashville, Tenn., page 8, column 4:

It sticks to the novel closely and makes the heroine, “Lena Despard,” an adventureress of desperate wickedness.

1887 September 25, Blakely Hall, chapter II, in J. H. Estill, editor, The Morning News, Savannah, Ga., page 2, column 2:

Woe to the financier who confides his money affairs to frail female ears; to the diplomat or public functionary, civil or military, who blabs out office secrets, or makes use of the supposed influence of one or any of these adventureresses.

1887 October 24, Parisina, “Luxury and Vice”, in Daily Nebraska State Journal, eighteenth year, number 106, Lincoln, Neb., published 3 December 1887, page 2, column 4:

Mollie claims that she was enticed away from her home by Charles Burton, but the young man declares that she is an adventureress and is merely trying to work him for money.

1890 June 9, “Kansas City, Missouri. Passenger Rates Placed in the Old Notch To-day. The Scott Tickets Not a Disturbing Factor in the Settlement—Texas Cattle Rates to be Slashed—Local Matters in the City Across the Line.”, in The Kansas City Gazette, volume IV, number 70, Kansas City, Kan., page [3], column 3:

Neither does she want to admit to her salon, under the mask of a “newspaper correspondent” or “literary woman,” the adventureress who is using a certain tact in letters to cleverly enlarge her field of action, or to make respectable people objects of malicious ridicule or abuse.

1891 February 22, “Among Literati”, in The Topeka Daily Capital, volume XIII, number 46, Topeka, Kan., page 14, column 3:

A Paris dispatch says two Italian adventureresses were yesterday ordered to leave France in forty-eight hours.

1893 February 3, “Stray Sparks”, in Portage Daily Democrat, volume 2, number 17, Portage, Wis., front page, column 2:

[…] but since the unfortunate embarrassment of Colonel Breckinridge, attendant upon his being made, as he believes, the victim of a shrewd adventureress and schemer, he has been, and still is, unwilling that his name should be further used, until Colonel Breckinridge and his friends, one of whom Mr. Bronston claims to be, “shall have had full opportunity to restore him to that confidence which his past official career, brilliant attachments and personal integrity have so richly deserved.”

1893 September 21, “Says Nay Again. Mr. Charles J. Bronston Still Insists He is Not a Candidate. He Says He Will Not Take Advantage of a Prostrate Foe and Asks That His Name Be Not Considred^([sic]) in Con-Connection^([sic]) With the Congressional Succession.”, in The Kentucky Leader, Lexington, Ky., page 7, column 3:

Third race 4 1-2 furlong Parthenia, 115 (Tribe), 1 to 2, 1; Adventureress, 115 (Godfrey), 8 to 1, 2; Jolly Bov, 118 (Murphy), 8 to 1, 3; time, 1:17 3-4. Waywayonda, Vexatio geld, Berwick, Prince Marie, John Rudden, Boonton, Delia M. also ran.

1894 December 22, “With the Bangtails. Running Race Results at Alexander Island and Roby.”, in Buffalo Courier, volume LIX, number 356, Buffalo, N.Y., page 10, column 4:

Mr. Strong, of Lebannon, who introduced the bill, said several scandals had resulted in this vicinity from marriages into which adventureress had inveigled the sons of rich parents.

1895 February 20, “The Age of Consent. Fixed for Boys by the New Hampshire Legislature.”, in Elmira Gazette, volume LXXI, number 40, Elmira, N.Y., page 1, column 5:

A recent extradition case at Hamburg, the person involved being a clever adventureress who passed herself off in Berlin and elsewhere as the Archduchess Theresa d’Este, and victimized several persons to the amount of 200,000 marks ($40,000), is the direct cause of reopening the negotiations for a revision of the treaty.

1895 March 17, “Talk of the Treaty; German-American Extradition Is Being Discussed. Present Arrangements Are Not Satisfactory to Either Country and New Plans Are Absolutely Necessary to Carrying on the Interchange of Criminals—America Is More Interested in the Change—How the German Emperor Presides Over the Council—General Berlin Gossip.”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LIV, number 76, Chicago, Ill., page 9, column 3:

The adventureress, failing to win the injured lover’s attachment, pools her issues with those of the male villian till more and striking complications ensue.

1895 October 24, “For Next Week. Another of Frohman’s Plays to Be Given in Champaign.”, in The Champaign Daily Gazette, number 3718, Champaign, Ill., page 1, column 2:

C. M. Martin, the horseman, identifies them as two adventureresses, who “worked” the coast a few years ago.

1897 August 6, “Known in Los Angeles”, in The Nebraska State Journal, twenty-seventh year, Lincoln, Neb., page 8, column 5:

He declared in his speech that he had been victimized by the bold adventureress with whom he had become infatuated.

1897 November 25, “Preacher Given a Divorce”, in The St. Joseph Herald, volume XLVI, number 329, St. Joseph, Mo., page 4, column 6:

And, Archie, don’t tell your mother what you have just said or she will be imagining Miss Lester an adventureress of the deepest dye.

1898 March 12, “Ordeal by Fire”, in The London Reader of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information, volume LXX, number 1819, chapter XV, page 517, column 3:

This delightful adventureress yet claims that her trunks and other baggage that has been lost will come around all right and that she will be able to prove that she is whom she claims to be.

1898 December 15, The County Courant, volume XXV, number 13, Cottonwood Falls, Kan., page [4], column 2:

The princess, deserted and alone, shamed her parentage by joining the legion of adventureresses at Budapest, and fell lower and lower as her beauty gradually faded.

1900 December 7, “The End of a Princess”, in Buffalo Evening News, volume XLI, number 47, Buffalo, N.Y., page 3, column 3:

J. I. White assumes the role of villain, and with Alma Chester, who plays the part of the adventureress, receives hisses enough to suit almost anyone.

1904 June 21, “In the Theaters Last Evening”, in The Pittsburg Post, Pittsburg[h], Pa., page 6, column 7:

Gilbert is also a Russian spy, and carries on an intrigue with a Russian adventureress (Miss Isabel Norman).

1905 July 7, “Dover Theatre Royal: The Curate”, in The Dover Express and East Kent News, number 2453, Dover, Kent, page 7, column 5:

Since the arrival in Philadelphia nearly fifty years ago the “Countess de Beetancourt,” found dead and supposed to have been murdered on Tuesday, has established a record as an adventureress as inexplicable as it is unequaled.

1906 January 23, “Countess Had Run Whole Social Gamut in Half a Century”, in The Raleigh Evening Times, volume 27, Raleigh, N.C., page 8, column 2:

There are more adventureresses and blackmailers who are willing to go into court than there are respectable women who will ask a court to estimate in dollars the compensatory damages due to the possessor of a broken heart.

1910 May 7, “Philanderers. Breach of Promise Laws No Safeguard to Women’s Happiness.”, in The Washington Post, number 12,385, Washington, D.C., page 6, column 7:

Sensations abound in this exciting melodramatic production dealing with the life of a French adventureress, madly in love with a counterfeiter, whom she betrays when she learns he has secretly wedded a famous female detective, only to aid him to escape when the officers are about to arrest him.

1910 January 8, “Family Theater”, in The Butte Inter Mountain, volume XXVIII, number 304, Butte, Mont., page 10, column 1:

A Decade of the Lives of Porter Charlton and His Murdered Wife Tells a Thrilling Story of an Adventureress’ Life and Teems with Love, Intrigue, Revelry and May End in Italian Dungeon.

1910 June 29, “Story of Barefoot Boy and Gay Society Belle; It Runs the Gamut of Human Passions to Murder”, in The Tacoma Times, volume VII, number 164, Tacoma, Wash., page one, column 2:

The prattle of an innocent child, the tears of an old blind mother, the strong love of a simple country girl, the passion of an adventureress, the truth of a half wit, theh^([sic]) love of an old negro and the tender memory of a dead mother of the past Governor or Arkansas, are all cleverly intermingled by the deft hand of the author of this absorbing tale of the Arkansas Hills.

1911 February 15, “Theatrical: At Staub’s”, in The Journal and Tribune, volume XVIII, number 229, Knoxville, Tenn., page 7, column 6:

For long it was the custom upon the stage to dress every adventureress, every woman of the half world, in clothes of this shade.

1913 June 26, “Red. Through the Green Earth Runs a Red Stream. It Is the Blood of Men.”, in The Roanoke News, volume XLVIII, number 9, Weldon, N.C., front page, column 4:

We have no patience with her, we detest her a political hag, an irresponsable^([sic]) adventureress.

1913 October 23, “Drive Her Away”, in The Mebane Leader, volume 4, number 9, Mebane, N.C., page [4], column 2:

The engagement will open with a production of “The Adventureress,” which is said to be a splendid play.

1913 December 11, “May Roberts Coming”, in The Conrad Independent, volume 3, number 47, Conrad, Mont., front page, column 5:

WHO KILLED OLGA CAREW—Two part Imp drama, with a photographer, an artist and an adventureress; […]

1914 February 17, “Grand Theatre”, in Princeton Clarion-News, volume XXII, number 14, Princeton, Ind.: Clarion Publishing Company, (Inc.) Publishers, page [4], column 4:

This is the story of a successful adventureress: Two weeks ago the manager of the Hotel Biltimore—which is the newest plush lined pile in town—spoke to the cashier.

1914 April 2, “So Easy to Fool New York”, in The Enid Morning News, Enid, Okla., page three, column 1:

Fogg falls victim to an adventureress and becomes married.

1914 July 26, “Varieties on Orpheum Bill”, in The Anaconda Standard, volume XXV, number 326, Anaconda, Mont., page 6, column 2:

Decidedly she must be saved from the mean schemes of the adventureress.

1914 October 30, “The Beloved Adventurer”, in The Call, number 44, Schuylkill Haven, Pa., page 3, column 3:

Mrs. Layton posed as Jordan’s daughter, but it would seem that she is an adventureress of the worst type and that she and Jordan planned to kill Layton and gain possession of his money.

1915 June 24, “Taken to Lincoln: New Developments in Scottsbluff Murder Case Made Removal of Jordan Necessary”, in The Alliance Herald, volume XXII, number 29, Alliance, Neb., page [4], column 3:

[…] a beautiful woman, who tells the novelist that she is the wife of the railroad president, but who in reality is an adventureress with designs on the $200,000 and a crooked mayor and his man, who also claim the hidden wealth.

1915 October 20, “Matinee of 7 Keys to Baldpate Today”, in Allentown Democrat, volume 91, number 144, Allentown, Pa., eighth page, column 2:

Maude George, one of the cleverest of actresses who play the adventureress and the conniving woman, is another handsome woman found in congenial circumstances.

1917 February 3, “Kerrigan Picture Here. A Spectacular Picture Will Be Shown At the Rath Monday.”, in Dodge City Daily Globe, volume 6, number 47, Dodge City, Kan., page three, column 4:

Because a well bred and beautiful girl objected to her father marrying, his second wife, a Parisian adventureress, she paid dearly.

1917 February 8, “Evil Women Do Is Coming to Quality: Bluebird Feature Will Be the Show Here on Tuesday February 13”, in The Southwestern News and Leader, volume III, number 5, Elk City, Okla., page eight:

Many adventureresses have been marrying several American soldiers each, in order to get the allotment of pay granted by the government to wives of soldiers.

1918 October 10, “The Melting Pot”, in The Pawhuska Capital, volume 15, number 29, Pawhuska, Okla., page [3], column 1:

He must guard himself from beggars, cranks, curiosity seekers, matchmakers, adventurers and adventureresses and people who want to sell him things.

1920 September 1, ““Clerk Faces Problem of Spending Millions”, in Montgomery Times, volume 36, Montgomery, Ala., page [8], column 2:

At the Columbia Theater starting today, Rex Beach’s “Recoil,” a drama of beautiful adventureresses, featuring Betty Blythe and Mahlon Hamilton with a large cast including Europes^([sic]) ten most beautiful women.

1924 August 8, “Theaters”, in The Daily Dawn, volume I, number 124, Coffeyville, Kan., page one, column 5:

She must be at heart a bad woman; one of those adventureresses.

1929 October 18, Rupert Hughe, “Souls for Sale”, in The Democrat-American, volume 22, number 41 (Sequoyah Co. Democrat) / volume 4, number 36 (The Sallisaw American), Sallisaw, Okla., page [10], column 2:

All ages have had ther charmin’ women, but they’ve been mostly sorceresses, an’ adventureresses, go-gitters, an’ the like.

1930 February 9, “ABE MARTIN: On The Land O’ the Free”, in The Wichita Eagle Sunday Magazine, Wichita, Kan., page six, column 4:

Adventurers and soldiers of fortune, adventureresses and ladies of fortune, drift in from many lands.

1930 April 21, Gilbert Swan, “In New York”, in Daily News Standard, volume 42, number 108, Uniontown, Pa., page four:

Now this one ‘A Woman Must Not Lose Her Heart;’ this one, ‘Madame Felicia, the Mill Girl Smarted Herself Into the Royal Court;’ this one, ‘Racquel, the Spanish Adventureress Came Near Turning Over an Empire;’ this one, ‘Titina Emptied Three or Four Country Treasuries;’ those were the women.

1933 June 30, William Foster, ““Fool and Fire”--Thrilling Serial”, in California Eagle, volume 46, number 6, Los Angeles, Calif., page five:

“Rony Brace, bride of the proud invalid. Eric Chatonier, goes with him to his home in New Orleans, where she is made to feel an interloper and an adventureress by the strange members of his family. Her unhappy position is complicated still further when two murders are committed in swift succession.”

1947, Dorothy E. Cook, Estelle A. Fidell, editors, Fiction Catalog: 1942-1946 Supplement to the 1941 Edition: A Subject, Author and Title List of 1451 Works of Fiction in the English Language with Annotations, New York, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Company, page 50, column 2:

Crooks, desert drives, and all sorts of adventurers and adventureresses play big part in “Fugitive Lady,” which will come to the Riviera Friday and Saturday.

1935 January 27, Sam Adkins, “Many Laughs Offered At Shows This Week: ‘The County Chairman’, With Will Rogers, Is Hilarious Film at Tennessee; ‘The Scarlet Empress’ at Riviera Called Elab orate and Glamorous”, in The Knoxville Sunday Journal, volume XI, number 7, Knoxville, Tenn., pages 11—C, column 2:

The adventureresses had indeed fared well. They arrived at Okanogan with twenty-six horses, fathoms upon fathoms of higua, deerskin garments, and buffalo robes uncounted.

1956, Cecil Dryden, By Sea on the Tonquin, Caldwell, Ida.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., →LCCN, page 221:

Scarlet ladies, gambling women, adventureresses; they’re all magnificently represented in this most readable history book that tells it like it was.

1970 January 2, Gordon Aalborg, “West’s wild women”, in The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page 53, column 5:

Among them were adventureresses, professional gamblers and wom-[…]

1970 May 10, Ann Newman, “Books in OUR Town”, in The Terre Haute Tribune-Star, volume 40, number 11, Terre Haute, Ind., page 38, column 6:

The heroine of this author’s writing is The Baroness who appears to the outside world as simply an international playgirl. Those in the know (which now includes you) soon find that she is a top adventureress-agent à la Modesty Blaise.

1976, Myron J. Smith, Jr., Cloak-and-Dagger bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Spy Fiction, 1937-1975, Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 100:

Born in Rome on August 26, 1880, Wilhelm Apollinairis de Kostrowitzky was an illegitimate child; in “The Thief,” he says that his “father was asphinx and his mother a night.” In reality, his mother was a Polish adventureress of noble ancestry, Angelique Kostrowicka, known in Paris mostly as Olga.

1984, “Guillaume Apollinaire”, in Frank N. Magill, editor, Critical Survey of Poetry: Foreign Language Series, volume 1 (Authors, A-D), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, →ISBN, page 49:

“Hmmm. You two start breaking camp,” the adventureress ordered. “I’ll fetch him, and we’ll be off. I’m not inclined to hang around here.”

1988, Kate Novak, Jeff Grubb, Azure Bonds, TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 146:

To fill out the sixteen-page section, [Will] Eisner created two backup features for the Spirit: “Lady Luck,” a glamorous adventureress, and “Mr. Mystic,” a reworking of his “Yarko, the Great Magician.”

1994, Mike Benton, “Will Eisner”, in Masters of Imagination: The Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame, Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 10, column 1:

Eager to make amends and fed up with the cheap noodleries, Chinese restaurants and pricey, trendoid Thai places that all claim to serve good food from that enchanted land but don’t, I returned to this old haunt with a favourite adventureress.

2001 March 30, Ashok Chandwani, “Thailande a sure track to spicy bliss”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page D 12:

[Oscar] Wilde, being a first-class subversive, implies that the Wicked Lady, an unshamed adventureress and serial lover, ought be admired for the courage of her convictions: by contrast he mocks the aristocrats as immoralists desperate to be caught in a good light.

2002 February 22, Nicholas de Jongh, “Escapist pleasure as Vanessa and Joely share stage”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:

As far as I was concerned, bubbly little Aunt Nell was mustard (nice hot stuff). She’d married early – an English butcher who died soon after, leaving her enough money to set up as a global adventureress, with occasionally stints as a teacher in exotic places, like Kenya and California.

2003, Gabriel Duffy, “Class/Family”, in Sham to Rock: Growing Up in Forties and Fifties Dublin, Aengus Books, →ISBN, page 37:

Kazan often calls Loden “a bitch”, and saw her as bold, fearless, a sexual adventureress, maybe a golddigger – while her close collaborators, Nicholas (Nick) T. Proferes who shot and edited the film, and Michael Higgins who played Mr. Dennis to her Wanda, perceived her as “insecure” and “sensitive”.

2004, Bérénice Reynaud, “For Wanda”, in Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, Noel King, editors, The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, part three (People and Places), page 226:

“This encyclopedia begins where all the figures who haunt us today seem to have begun: right in the middle of Victoria, where the monsters began to flourish, and the adventureresses, the swashbucklers, the great detectives, the savants, the evil financiers, the exiles, the spies, the courtesans, the thuggees, the vampires, the heroes who do not die, the brave boys who invent[…]”

2005, Jess Nevins, The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, MonkeyBrain Books, →ISBN, back cover:

Lilith (dracula’s daughter) FIRST APPEARANCE Giant-Size Chillers Vol. 1 #1 (June 1974) REAL NAME Unrevealed OCCUPATION Adventureress BASE South of France HEIGHT 6 ft WEIGHT 125lbs EYES Red HAIR Black

2009, The Marvel Comics Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to the Characters of the Marvel Universe, DK, →ISBN, page 188:

“If she [Lisa Freeman] were a man, you could say she has a lot of testosterone,” he [Luther Freeman] said, smiling. “She’s an adventureress. She white-water rafts and snow skis, scuba dives and does all sorts of things, and she decided back several years ago that she wanted to skydive.

2011 January 4, Tim Doherty, “Birthday gift of a lifetime”, in Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg, Miss., page 1A:

(sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of adventuress.


baby trap

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The cynic surfaced, reminding him that she'd been accused of trying to spring the baby trap on Brad Comfort.

A situation where a person deliberately gets themselves or their partner pregnant, so that the partner is less likely to leave the relationship.


pronatal

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male impersonator

en-noun

male impersonator (plural male impersonators)

(performing arts) A female entertainer who performs cross-dressed as a man.


male pattern violence

Apparently modelled on male pattern baldness.

As civilization collapses, we will see an increase in male-pattern violence. We will see an increase in violence against those who resist. We will see an increase in violence against people of color.

2011, Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet:

As feminists have known for years: the issue is male-pattern violence, and sexual assault is only one facet of this violence which keeps women in a subservient class to men.

2019, Martin Gitlin, Sexual Consent, page 86:

(feminism) Violent behavior thought to be characteristic of men.


Capuchiness

(Catholicism) A member of the Capuchin Poor Clares, a Catholic religious order for women.


weird sister

It was some such feeling as this which led Michael to visit a weird sister known as the Witch of Falsehope.

1863, Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, volume 59, page 289:


stepmother-in-law

From step- + mother-in-law or stepmother + -in-law.


jim hat

“Come on, Jamal. […] I'm not lettin' you stick it in without a jim hat,” Simone said, annoyed. They debated about this with every one-night-stand they enjoyed.

2010, Jamila D. Smith, Runaways, page 24:


parafeminism

From para- + feminism, coined by Amelia Jones.

Parafeminism encourages women to become equal to men by becoming more pleasing to them.

2013, Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America, page 201:

Understanding gender 'as a question rather than an answer', contextual, nonprescriptive and inherently intersectional, parafeminism sheds 'some of the closures and limitations' of the second wave […]

2017, Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, page 61:

A variety of feminism that seeks to better the conditions of women but considers men and women to be fundamentally different.


fourth-wave feminism

A period of feminist activity that began around 2012 and is characterized by Internet activism, intersectionality, and a focus on sexual abuse and sexual harassment.


choice feminism

(sometimes derogatory) A feminist approach that stresses respecting the choices women make on how to operate under patriarchy, and especially eschews scrutinizing them for making decisions seen as aligning with patriarchy.


sunck

(historical) A female Native American chief.


breast boobily

en-verb

breast boobily (third-person singular simple present breasts boobily, present participle breasting boobily, simple past and past participle breasted boobily)

breasts boobily (present singular third-person)
breasting boobily (participle present)
breasted boobily (participle past)
breasted boobily (past)

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Posted anonymously to a message board, and reposted to Tumblr by scottbaiowulf in a post published December 28, 2016, criticizing how men write about women: "She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards."

My favourite fighter summons a whirling sword that she can teleport to, while her ultimate makes her leap into the air and do three huge, anime-sized purple slashes. She's also got bare legs up to her crotch and a figure that breasts boobily across the battlefield.

2021 August 16, Matt Cox, “Naraka: Bladepoint review: a punishing battle royale that rewards perseverance”, in Rock Paper Shotgun, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

In Pike's 1992 horror novel for adults, The Season of Passage, she is Dr. Lauren Wagner, a physician-astronaut who we meet breasting boobily on a treadmill in the novel's early pages to the delight of Terry Hayes, a reporter sent to interview her. What exactly she is a doctor of is never entirely clear.

2023 January 31, Sarah McCarry, “Weird Cosmologies and Unsubtle Monsters: The Shared Terrors of H.P. Lovecraft and Christopher Pike”, in Tor.com, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

gotta apologize to male authors because I just walked down the stairs and it turns out my chest did actually breast boobily

2023 February 6, @roastmalone_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:

There's a unique advantage to not only making your protagonists women but hiring women to write them, as the novel was written by Bell and the screenplay was adapted by Jessica Sharzer. They may be over-the-top, but they still feel like real people as opposed to some male fantasy that breasted boobily.

2023 February 19, Ariel Fisher, “The Daily Stream: A Simple Favor Is A Complicated, Decadent Mystery”, in /Film, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

You're introduced to the robo-sex-ballerinas, who move like they were animated by an OpenAI chatbot fed only on men-writing-women memes, breasting boobily at you across the room.

2023 March 6, Chris Tapsell, “Atomic Heart review - confusion and fear reflects the growing concerns of an industry”, in Eurogamer, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

Most developers will be happy to create crass, misleading advertising, and it should be regulated. Advertisements broadcasted on television are, so why not those we see in games? I don't have high hopes for this happening any time soon, but it seems to be becoming more and more necessary. I have seen women breasting boobily away from zombies too many times already.

2023 April 1, Tessa Kaur, “Mobile Game Advertisements Need To Chill Out”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

(Internet slang) To move with an exaggerated swaying of the breasts (parodying a typical description of female characters by male authors which focuses excessively on their breasts).


chestfeeder

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A nursing father, one who chestfeeds (suckles a baby).


gender-critical feminist

en-noun

gender-critical feminist (plural gender-critical feminists)

The disturbing incident, also caught on video, took place in London’s Hyde Park as a few dozen women waited to find out the location of a controversial debate between transgender activists and “gender-critical feminists” who believe biological sex determines who is a woman.

2017 September 24, Cathy Young, “Why you shouldn’t punch a Nazi”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 292, number 86, page K5, column 1:

Where the traditional rights of biological women collide with asserted rights of trans women — sport, intimate spaces, rape crisis centres, prisons — gender-critical feminists join with conservatives like me in insisting that biological women’s rights must prevail: for the sake of their safety, privacy and right to a level playing field.

2020 June 10, Barbara Kay, “Professor holds the line on free expression: U of A decision offends those on left and right”, in National Post, volume 22, number 191, page A8, column 1:

Gender-critical feminists are loud about these issues, and they are unique in including leftists that oppose these laws—often the only leftists who do.

2023, Holly Lawford-Smith, Sex Matters: Essays in Gender-Critical Philosophy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 211:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

An adherent or proponent of gender-critical feminism.


false pregnancy

false pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural false pregnancies)


lady's woman

lady's woman (plural lady's women or ladies' women)

lady's women (plural)
ladies' women (plural)


maternity dress

maternity dress (plural maternity dresses)

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A dress designed to be worn by a pregnant woman who has a large baby bump


mife

The miso/mife combination is becoming increasingly popular: In 2011, it accounted for 36 percent of all abortions before nine weeks of gestation, and it’s often considered the gold standard of medication abortion, with an estimated success rate that is nearly 10 percent higher than using miso alone (92 to 95 percent and 80 to 85 percent, respectively).

2014 June 27, Erica Hellerstein, “The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas”, in The Atlantic:

(pharmacology, informal) Clipping of mifepristone.


trial of scar

Tradition has taught that a previous classical Caesarean section, more than one scar, previous obstructed labour, and contracted pelvis all provide absolute contraindications to a trial of scar.

1988, Christopher Targett, “Caesarean Section and Trial of Scar”, in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 28, number 4, pages 249–262:

In a recent UK survey, 95% of consultants responded that they would not allow trial of scar following a classical Caesarean section (Roberts et al 1994).

1995, Geoffrey Chamberlain, editor, Turnbull's Obstetrics, 2nd edition, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 719:

A trial of scar may be justified in a woman with a previous cesarean section who is currently on HAART, has an undetectable virus and spontaneously goes into labor.

2012, Jyoti Dhar, “A Guide to the Clinical Care of Pregnant Women with HIV”, in Mamatha M Lala, Rashid H Merchant, editors, Principles of Perinatal and Pediatric HIV/AIDS, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, →ISBN, page 317:

(obstetrics) A labour where a vaginal delivery is attempted in a woman who has had a previous caesarean section.


IUGR

(obstetrics) Initialism of intrauterine growth restriction.


gestational diabetes

(obstetrics) A condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood glucose levels during pregnancy.


Harawayan

en-adj

Harawayan (comparative more Harawayan, superlative most Harawayan)

more Harawayan (comparative)
most Harawayan (superlative)

Of or relating to Donna Haraway (born 1944), American scholar of science and technology studies and feminist theory.


APH

antepartum haemorrhage
w:antepartum haemorrhage

(obstetrics) Initialism of antepartum haemorrhage.


woman-identified-woman

Their father hasn't contributed except periodically to their support. He has the option of living his life style as he wishes, but I have to hide and deny my life style as a woman-identified-woman or risk losing my children.

1980 April 12, M. Amish, “The Right to Be a Parent”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

(feminism) A lesbian, whether political or native-born.


skingirl

Several white power skingirls told me of slam dances at which there was “no mercy for the weak.”

2003, Kathleen M. Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement, page 182:

For some, this may be associated with general appearance, such as the Chelsea-type haircut characteristic of skingirls […]

2009, George McKay, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, page 73:

A female member of the skinhead subculture.


femalism

In line with femalism, African womanism is committed to the quest for total freedom of the colonized African men and women.

2004, Chioma Carol Opara, Her Mother's Daughter: The African Writer as Woman, page 20:


vaginocracy

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quoted in 2023, John Mercer, Mark McGlashan, Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning, and Digital Media
The psychoanalyst: he gives you the deep reasons for your situation. You have probably been abandoned by a boyfriend, maybe you are a lesbian and still do not know, you plan a vaginocracy as revenge from men, and you're very fat and nobody cares about you, are the most common reasons.

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


snail-sense feminism

A Nigerian approach to feminism that encourages women to work slowly and cautiously in their dealings with men and patriarchy.


she-E-O

she-eo Referring to a woman CEO, this is an irresistible play on words for headline writers, contest organizers, and singers. It has various spellings: she-e-o, she e o, she-eo, sometimes with capital letters. In the year 2000, a Canadian company sponsored a She-EO contest for women only, awarding $250,000 Canadian for the best dot-com business plan. And then there is the women's a capella^([sic]) singing group at Harvard Business School that calls itself the She E O's.

2004, Allan A. Metcalf, “The Crystal Ball”, in Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success, illustrated edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 179:

She's Executive Officer - the She-E-O: This journal is to recognize all of the female entrepreneurs and bosses that make it happen. This notebook is vibrant and colorful and represents the brighter side of business that women bring to the table. It is a great gift for any female boss, big or small. She can continue to take notes, plan, set goals, dream and prosper with this journal. This journal is a great gift to yourself or someone else for encouragement, appreciation, empowerment, and recognition. Let's CELEBRATE the She-E-O!

2021 March 31, Terri Jordan Adams, She's Executive Officer: The She-E-o: Take Notes, Independently Published, →ISBN:

“She's Ultimate Platinum Regional She-EO of the Midwest. Its insane. She must make, like, millions.”

2021 August 24, Kyla Sharp, The Lies She Sold: A gripping psychological thriller, Kyla Sharp, →ISBN:

The origins of the term ‘She-e-o’ may be rooted in the SheEO Foundation, created by Vicky Saunders as a community support system for women and non-binary people in 1999.

2022 April 25, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, “Startups and the unsettling of the menstrual product industry”, in Cash Flow: The businesses of menstruation, UCL Press, →ISBN, page 174:

It's like I got promoted to she-E-O of a super toxic corporation, hey, but I'm in charge now, so I can make things better.

2023 July 21, Anna Drezen, “Taxi to the South!” (20:13 from the start), in Praise Petey, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Petey St. Barts (Annie Murphy):


evictionism

A libertarian position on abortion based on property rights, according to which a woman is entitled to eject a baby from her body as a trespasser or a parasite.


sitty

Borrowed from South Levantine Arabic ستّ or a related term.

bor+

... Sitty Halima seemed to grow stronger. Despite being in constant pain, she was determined that Hanady and I should enjoy what would turn out to be our last summer in her company. I learned from my aunt that in fact, Sitty Halima did not[…]

2021 March 2, Linda Sarsour, We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance, 37 Ink, →ISBN, page 53:

After Israel banned Representative Rashida Tlaib from visiting her sitty (grandmother) in the West Bank in 2019, #MyPalestinianSitty trended on social media as Palestinians shared stories honoring their fierce grandmothers.

2021 October 23, Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Sarah Sills, A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 184:

(usually capitalized, as a title) Grandmother (in Arabic contexts).


girlfailure

/ˈɡɜɹlˌfeɪ.ljəɹ/

Compound of girl + failure. Coined in 2021 as an antonym to girlboss.

Coordinate term: boyfailure

(fandom slang) A fictional girl or woman who is endearingly pathetic or inept.


Cliffie

A student or alumna of Radcliffe College.


bubble zone

A government-mandated perimeter around a facility providing abortions, preventing protesters from approaching closely.


vampire time

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But what would he have thought about the female character in a novel I recently read who, noting that she was in her menstual period, called it 'vampire time'?

1985, Dennis Joseph Enright, Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism, page 58:

Thus the curse of Eve and the monthly blues give way to sanitary protection and menstual health. On the street things are a bit different, of course. There it's vampire time.

(euphemistic, slang) A woman's menstrual period.


in kid

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"Those little ones there, probably no more than ten, fifteen kilos," he says, pointing out three goats about the same size as the cattle dog, "they would be in kid."

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:


heartbeat law

A law that forbids abortions after the fetal heartbeat can be detected, typically around six weeks.


gagwoman

A woman writer or woman performer of gags.


lavender menace

It's an old story that lesbians and gay men have always been a part of movements for justice. However, it is only recently, as queers have come into their own political awareness, that this has been more than an unacknowledged, unreciprocated contribution of gay and lesbian spirit. […] We were the lavender menace of the early women's movement and the bourgeois decadent lifestylists of the sectarian New Left.

1982 August 28, Scott Brookie, “Making Love, Not War”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 5:

(often ironic) The presence of lesbians or lesbian activism in the feminist movement, seen as a threat to the movement at large.


noona

Borrowed from Korean 누나 (nuna, “older sister of a man”).

(manhwa, men's speech) An affectionate term of address for an older sister or somewhat older woman.


Bloomerist

(historical, sometimes derogatory) A supporter of equal rights for women, especially in relation to dress.


Roman charity

en-noun

Roman charity (countable and uncountable, plural Roman charities)

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(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A story where someone is sentenced to die by starvation; but their daughter saves them by secretly breastfeeding them.

Cimon and Pero (Rubens)
Peter Paul Rubens


taharat hamishpacha

Borrowed from Hebrew טהרת המשפחה (“family purity”).

bor+

That's an _added_ bonus, like avoiding pork products avoids trichonosis or circumscised males are less prone to penile cancer and women who practice taharas hamishpacha are less prone to cervix cancer.

2003 May 18, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Actually, only 20% of the Jewish people left Eg”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

They are "offended" by the laws of taharas hamishpacha and bristle at the idea that women sit behind a mechitza.

2004 May 23, Susan Cohen, quoting Cindys, “Sheitel Burning in Israel”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Numerous scholars […] have opined on potential ways in which adherence to the mandates of taharat hamishpacha can benefit a marriage, including injecting a monthly sense of renewal into the husband-wife relationship, ensuring that the couple learns to relate to each other on levels beyond the physical, cultivating a husband's sensitivity towards his wife during a vulnerable time of the month, sanctifying the physical bond between husband and wife, and more.

2010, Shmuel Goldin, Unlocking the Torah Text: Vayikra, Gefen Publishing House, →ISBN, page 88:

The Jewish laws pertaining to menstruation, given in Leviticus.


M-She-U

Blend of MCU + she. Most likely popularized by the YouTube channel Nerdrotic.

(fandom slang, derogatory, Internet slang) The Marvel Cinematic Universe, perceived by fans to be too feminist or left-wing.

Hollywoke

Hollywood films being perceived as overtly left-wing


menophilia

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A paraphilia involving menses or the menstrual cycle.


rapid-onset gender dysphoria

en-noun

rapid-onset gender dysphoria (uncountable)

Coined by Lisa Littman in July 2016. First appeared in a notice posted to a gender-critical blog and was later popularized by a 2018 paper by Littman.

Rapid onset gender dysphoria, by contrast, usually only relates to biological females, and is determined by a sudden acknowledgment they may be trans with little to no prior signals.

2022 September 8, Nikolas Lanum, “New 'Tucker Carlson Originals' two-part special sees 'detransitioners' speak out against trans 'movement'”, in Fox News:

(gender critical, pseudoscience) Controversial and scientifically unsupported subset of gender dysphoria claimed to be caused by social influence.

Rapid onset gender dysphoria controversy


rapid onset gender dysphoria

rapid onset gender dysphoria (uncountable)

rapid-onset gender dysphoria
rapid-onset gender dysphoria#English

Alternative spelling of rapid-onset gender dysphoria


She Who Must Not Be Named

Alternative spelling of She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named


abortifactive

[…] abortifactive agents such as Brucella abortus and Tritrichomonas foetus are not present in the Swedish bovine population […]

2003, Susanne Stenlund, Hans Kindahl, Arvid Uggla, Camilla Björkman, “A Long-Term Study of Neospora caninum Infection in a Swedish Dairy Herd”, in Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, volume 44, number 2, pages 63-71:

Complete necropsies, abortion panels to rule out other abortifactive agents, serum Ig levels, and aoEBA-specific immunohistochemistry (IHC) were performed on each fetus to confirm EBA diagnosis.

2011, Roxann S. Brooks, Myra T. Blanchard, Mark L. Anderson, Mark R. Hall, Jeffery L. Stott, “Quantitative duplex TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction for the assessment of the etiologic agent of epizootic bovine abortion”, in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, volume 23, number 6, pages 1153-1159:

[…] a high degree of seropositivity to N. caninum was diagnosed after evaluating for various abortifactive agents.

2015, Priya Bapodra, Barbara A Wolfe, “Investigation of Neospora caninum seroprevalence and potential impact on reproductive success in semi-freeranging Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus)”, in Veterinary Record Open, volume 2, number 1:

Abortion panels were conducted to identify fetal/neonatal losses due to other abortifactive agents.

2022, Myra T. Blanchard, Mike B. Teglas, Mark L. Anderson, Peter F. Moore, Bret R. McNabb, Kassidy M. Collins, Bret V. Yeargan, Jeffrey L. Stott, “Protection of Cattle against Epizootic Bovine Abortion (EBA) Using a Live Pajaroellobacter abortibovis Vaccine”, in Vaccines (Basel), volume 10, number 2, page 335:

REMINDER: Steroids may be abortifactive for gravid females; be willing to live by the consequences. Use only in life threatening circumstances for pregnant females.

2024, “Chemical Immobilization, Capture and Handling:”, in Yellowstone Grizzly Project, archived from the original on 2024-08-26:

(pharmacology) Inducing abortion or miscarriage, abortifacient.


birthing person

birthing person (plural birthing persons or birthing people)

birthing persons (plural)
birthing people (plural)

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Black trans/gender nonconforming birthing persons are more likely than cisgender women to seek a home birth, but they may face particular challenges in finding medical personnel who respect their identity and reproductive choices.¹⁶

2015 December 22, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Alicia D. Bonaparte, Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Routledge, →ISBN, page 160:

Dads can feel ignored or shunned from the grief experience, particularly in the hospital environment, which can feel entirely oriented towards the care of the woman or birthing person.

2020 November 5, Kay King, Why Baby Loss Matters (Pinter & Martin Why it Matters), Pinter & Martin Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Even if you don't manage to make a difference in a particular scenario, it can make a bit difference to a woman or birthing person to know that they had you as an advocate, supporting them and their interests.

2023 March 14, Tania Staras, Communication in Midwifery - E-Book: Communication in Midwifery - E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

(neologism) a person who has the ability to give birth (or has had it)


ultrafeminism

This stereotype of the West is not new. It builds on writings of the influential political scientist Sergey Karaganov, who considered the West to be characterized by “phenomena such as LGBtism,^([sic]) multisexuality, ultrafeminism, denial of history and one’s roots, faith, support of black racism including its anti-Christian elements and its anti-Semitism”.

2023, Angelika Nußberger, “Russia and the West – Identity Formation on the Basis of Otherness”, in European Identities and Values in Transformation: Impulses of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum for a European Future Agenda (Notes from the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum; 4), Hamburg: University of Hamburg, page 23:

(sometimes derogatory) An extreme form of feminism.


urinary leash

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(feminism, historical) The former situation of women being largely confined to their homes because of a lack of public toilets for women.


male as norm

(grammar, feminism) The principle that holds that grammatical and lexical devices such as the use of the feminine suffix -ess and the use of man to mean human, strengthen the perceptions that the male category is the norm, and that corresponding female categories are thus less important.


boypreggers

/ˈbɔɪˌpɹɛ.ɡəs/

/ˈbɔɪˌpɹɛ.ɡəɹs/

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just got my boybortion, no longer boypreggers 😔😔😔

2021 August 25, @Minty_2022, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-09-21:

Which DS9 character should get boypreggers?

2023 November 5, imsoglitter, Tumblr, archived from the original on 2024-09-21:

You can get me boypreggers anytime

2024 September 16, Jonah Ramirez (@_polybius), Threads, archived from the original on 2024-09-21:

(Internet slang) Of a boy or man, pregnant.


antiwomanist

en-adj

antiwomanist (comparative more antiwomanist, superlative most antiwomanist)

more antiwomanist (comparative)
most antiwomanist (superlative)

Interactions between women and men, or girls and boys, are warped with imbalance from the outset: “Male acculturation (a better description would be males’ seasoning) is antifemale, antiwomanist, antifeminist, and antireason […] Most men have been taught to treat, respond, listen, and react to women from a male’s point of view” (Madhubuti, 2005, p. 175).

2018 February 27, “White Men’s Terrorism: Rape Culture, Mass Gun Violence, and Raising Our Boys to Hate Our Girls (and Everyone Else)”, in The Bridges We Burn:


antiwomanist

This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.

2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:


`num`MeJew

2018 January 31, Lisa Feldsher, “#MeJew”, in The Times of Israel:

2020 January 1, Judi Zirin, “#MeJew”, in The Times of Israel:

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


International Day of the Girl Child

At its fiftieth session in February 2006, the CSW identified the girl child as its "priority theme," and it collaborated with UNICEF to organize an expert group meeting on the girl child and build momentum toward creating an International Day of the Girl Child.

2019 October 16, Ashwini Tambe, Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

A holiday celebrated on October 11 that aims to raise awareness of the challenges and issues faced by girls around the world


International Day of the Girl

International Day of the Girl Child#English

Alternative form of International Day of the Girl Child


milk token

(UK) A token given by the state to a pregnant woman or mother of a young infant for the purchase of milk and related supplies.


milk card

(UK) A payment card serving the same purpose as milk tokens.


milk voucher

(UK) A voucher serving the same purpose as a milk token.


manclaiming

(feminism, rare, derogatory) A man's practice of claiming a woman's work as his own.


traitoresse

They must refuse to be her officers, because she is a traitoresse and rebell against God.

1558, John Knox, edited by Edward Arber, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women (quotation in English; overall work in English):

There ſhall your Maſter haue a thouſand loues, / A Mother, and a Miſtreſſe, and a friend, / A Phenix, Captaine, and an enemy, / A guide, a Goddeſſe, and a Soueraigne, / A Counſellor, a Traitoreſſe, and a Deare: […]

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 231, column 2:


traitresse

Call'd hir vntrue and traitresse, as who sought
 To yeeld him vp she could no more defend

1595, Robert Garnier, translated by Mary Sidney, The tragedie of Antonie. Doone into English by the Countesse of Pembroke (quotation in English; overall work in English):


traytress

My Wife, my Traytress, let her not come near me.

1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes (quotation in English; overall work in English):


John 50

From John + 50, in reference to a 2001 study in the journal Gender and Psychoanalysis, where a 50-year-old male identified as John is described as struggling with gender dysphoria after years of repression.

Anon will be a extremely bitter john 50 and his family will all have an extreme hate for him for trooning out. Also i bet this sends his sister down a terf pipeline and I honestly don’t blame them

2023 June 6, u/avian_variety, Reddit, r/4tran:

It honestly feels like I was born to be a #john50 the way that my life has only gotten worse on hrt and I was so successful at repressing for so long but alas I was born in present era 💔💔

nick fuentes is a john50 lateshit represser who seeks out nazism to cope with his gigaogremoder repression

(4chan /lgbt/ slang, derogatory) A trans woman who has long repressed her feelings of gender dysphoria.


womanosphere

From woman + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with manosphere.

Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.

2024 April 17, David Sasaki, “The emotionally immature lives of men and women”, in The Time Capsule:

(Internet) The collection of blogs and websites that focus on women's issues.


male-identified

I'm here to tell you that lesbian battering occurs in all kinds of lesbian relationships. I am a butch and I was a victim of it. All kinds of women can be abused, and many different kinds of women can be abusers. It's not going to be as easy as pointing fingers at those who are "male-identified" or have "internalized homophobia," and saying the problem is over there.

1984 February 4, Anne Franklin, “Who Are The Experts?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 6:

(feminism, of a woman, derogatory) Aligned with patriarchal interests.


kor kor

From Hokkien 姑姑 (ko͘-ko͘, “paternal aunt”).

(Singapore, informal or familiar) Term of address for a paternal aunt within some Chinese families.


jie jie

[t͡sɛː˨ t͡sɛː˨˦]

From Cantonese 姐姐 (ze²⁻⁴ ze²⁻¹) and Mandarin 姐姐 (jiějié).

(Singapore, informal, by extension, used by children) Term of address for an older female child, teenager or young adult.


male condom

Retronym for condom, coined after the introduction of the internal condom/female condom to distinguish the type of barrier contraceptive worn over an erect penis from the type worn internally in the vagina or anus.

(often proscribed) A condom worn over an erect penis, in contradistinction to one worn internally in the anus or vagina.


external condom

en-noun

external condom (plural external condoms)


MacKinnonian

en-adj

MacKinnonian (comparative more MacKinnonian, superlative most MacKinnonian)

more MacKinnonian (comparative)
most MacKinnonian (superlative)

Of or relating to Catharine A. MacKinnon (born 1946), American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author.


Chodorowian

Chodorowian (comparative more Chodorowian, superlative most Chodorowian)

more Chodorowian (comparative)
most Chodorowian (superlative)

Of or relating to Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American feminist sociologist.


lesbian chic

Critics attacked what they perceived to be the key feature of lesbian chic, i.e., 'cheque-writing dykes who [look] suspiciously like the average Tory shithead's daughter' (Solanas 1993, p. 5).

2008 February 19, Veronika Koller, Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community, Routledge, →ISBN, page 149:

[…] the fever surrounding lesbian chic in the 1990s belied "a larger cultural anxiety about the dangers of the lesbian body, exemplified by the simultaneous embrace of the 'new femme' as cutting edge and the denunciation of real-life lesbians as perverse and depraved".

2020 September 14, Kate Farhall, Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire in Women’s Magazines, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2007:


priestess of Venus

en-noun

priestess of Venus (plural priestesses of Venus)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see priestess, of, Venus.


Mexico City policy

Named after the venue of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, where it was announced.

non-governmental organization
non-governmental organization

(US politics, historical) A former United States government policy that blocked U.S. federal funding for non-governmental organizations that provided abortion counseling or referrals, advocated to decriminalize abortion, or expanded abortion services.


two-week wait

The time between ovulation and the expected time of menstruation, during which a person trying to get pregnant is unsure if it has "taken".