genderswap

The problem is exactly the one you have stated: many people would not be comfortable with a sudden genderswap in the Doctor, when the possibility has not even been hinted at in the past.

1996 July 4, Bill Billingsley, “Re: Sci-Fi Gender Role Reversal was Re: 9th Doctor”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):

But I liked the fact that they *were* friends and not lovers, as *the* most obvious thing to do with a genderswap of either Kirk or Spock is promptly pair them off together.

2001 June 20, Alara Rogers, “Re: TOS Challenge "Female Trek"”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

More sober challenges to the representation of gender in mainstream media (and of course, Supernatural specifically) occur in genderswap stories where the sudden change of anatomy is one that throws the character's world into chaos.

2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), page 162

(fandom slang) An instance of changing a fictional character's biological sex or gender identity from the canonical norm.


genderswap

en-verb

genderswap (third-person singular simple present genderswaps, present participle genderswapping, simple past and past participle genderswapped)

genderswaps (present singular third-person)
genderswapping (participle present)
genderswapped (participle past)
genderswapped (past)

I am a completely unartistic person who has found myself in charge of a fanfic shared world project to genderswap Marvel mutants. Thus, Xavier and Magneto are women and always were; Storm and Rogue are men and always were; you get the idea.

1998 December 28, Aleph Press, “META: Fanfic writer looking for artist”, in alt.comics.fan-fiction (Usenet):

In my series that genderswaps Kirk and Spock, "Jane Kirk's Enterprise", there is an implication that Jane Kirk was held back for her gender-- not *stopped*, not even running into major roadblocks, but she didn't rise as fast as James Kirk did under the same circumstances.

2002 February 22, Alara Rogers, “Re: A JanewaySlash: "Losses", 1/1 (VOY: J/Ro Laren) PG-13”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

And while they've kept the original series character's *names*, they've genderswapped some of them, and added a new twist by having Cylons characters who look and think they're human.

2005 February 1, Rick M., “Re: OT: Any Sci Fi nuts Here?”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):

(fandom slang) To change a fictional character's biological sex or gender identity from its canonical norm.


great-grandpa

Yet, according to recent research, the alleged grumpiness of great-grandma and great-grandpa is more myth than reality.

2010, Gerald Leinwand, Intimations of Immortality: Do You Want to Live Forever?, page 98:


Paglian

Sheaffer takes a Paglian position on the necessity for feminists to confront the darker aspects of sexuality.

1999, Mimi R. Gladstein, Chris M. Sciabarra, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, page 16:

The new goddesses are butch Amazon women; they are the vanguard of the Dionescian/Paglian reaction against dogmatic feminism.

2003, Julie V. Gottlieb, Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45:

She manages to shoehorn in cameos by Brian Freeman of the former performance group Pomo Afro Homos (1990-95), the singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon, whose hilarious explication of watermelon's cultural significance leaves the viewer baffled as to whether it's self-parody or a full-court display of Paglian earnestness.

2013, B. Ruby Rich, New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut, page 69:

Of or relating to Camille Paglia (born 1947), American teacher, feminist, and social critic.


yellow cab

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Shōko Ieda
Universal Studios
Yellow Cab (novel)
Yellow cab
Yellow cab (stereotype)

Originally selected owing to yellow's high visibility and common in horsedrawn form in Paris and London in the 1800s and New York in the 1880s. Now chiefly associated with the yellow automotive taxicabs popularized around New York by the Yellow Taxicab Co. In reference to sexually available Asian women, a calque of Japanese イエローキャブ (ierō kyabu), from English yellow cab and popularized by Shōko Ieda's 1991 novel by that name, from its female characters' supposed "yellow" skin and the notion they provided "rides" to the general public.

Despite its ubiquity in 1990s Japanese culture, one telephone survey of 200 people conducted in the New York area did not find a single individual familiar with the use of the term "yellow cab" in reference to Japanese or Asian women.

(Japanese, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian woman who sleeps with white men, particularly such Japanese women when regarded as a race traitor.


housegirl

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A girl or young woman employed in a private home to do housework.


girl crush

girl crushes (plural)
girl-crush (alternative)

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S. is a woman. I don't want to sleep with her — S. and I are both unambiguously heterosexual and my feelings for her are decidedly nonphysical — but I have a major crush on her all the same. This is a girl crush, big time.

2004, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint, published 2004, →ISBN, page 16:

“You look awesome,” she says, beaming. “Somewhat conservative and understated but with loads of style. If Tucker comes, she's going to be insanely jealous. I mean, she might even develop a girl crush.”

2006, Emily Giffin, Baby Proof, St. Martin's Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 181:

“Last week you hated her, and this week you're making her mixtapes? You totally have a girl crush!"

2010, Jill Murray, Rhythm and Blues, Doubleday Canada, published 2010, →ISBN, page 141:

(informal) A strong but usually nonsexual fondness experienced by one woman or girl for another.


same sex

The same gender to which one is referring, often when referring to oneself.

同性

the same gender to which one is referring


ciswash

ciswash (third-person singular simple present ciswashes, present participle ciswashing, simple past and past participle ciswashed)

ciswashes (present singular third-person)
ciswashing (participle present)
ciswashed (participle past)
ciswashed (past)

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From cis- + wash, by analogy with whitewash.

Numerous media outlets recounted how the noble gays and lesbians fought that night – never mentioning trans folk… carrying on that long and painful tradition of ciswashing queer history – especially Stonewall history.

2013 February 18, Cristan Williams, “Interview With an Actual Stonewall Riot Veteran: The Ciswashing of Stonewall Must End!”, in The Transadvocate:

Throughout the 2-minute trailer, I watched the passionate and diverse history of our movement be whitewashed and ciswashed.

2015, Matt Comer, "'Stonewall' film attracts criticism", QNotes, Volume 30, Number 8, 14 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, page 17

Let's stop ciswashing and whitewashing Stonewall, and use it instead as an example of how we need to fight racism, transmisogyny and poverty in our culture.

2015, Leela Ginelle, "Let's Remember What Stonewall Actually Was", PQ Monthly, August/September 2015, page 15

To ignore, deny, or minimize the gender identity of a trans person or trans people, or the role that a trans person or trans people played in an event.


fujoshi

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Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)女(じょ)子(し) (fujoshi, literally “rotten girl/woman”).

ja-r

(fandom slang) A female fan of yaoi. A female shipper.


skux

Unknown but has been dubiously claimed to derive from Samoan sitati (sometimes colloquially pronounced as sikaki) meaning study.

(colloquial, New Zealand) stud, player, womaniser


drugstore cowboy

en-noun

drugstore cowboy (plural drugstore cowboys)

First use appears c. 1922 in the San Antonio Evening News. The second sense derives from soda fountains and ice cream counters as a once popular meeting spot in drugstores.

When any of these jazz-age drugstore cowboys starts trying to fool around with his sister, he won't mince his words. He'll say, "See here, now, what do you mean, trying to ruin my sister?"

1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:

I saw Duel in the Sun late one Friday afternoon, came out blinking at the drugstore cowboys standing in front of the fly-spattered windows of the cafe across the street […]

1984, Carolyn Osborn, The Fields of Memory, Bryan, Texas: Shearer Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:

A young man who loafs around town, especially a lady's man who hangs out in public places in an attempt to pick up girls.


transwomyn

transwomyn (plural)
trans womyn (alternative)

From transwoman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transwomyn.

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of trans womyn


transmisogyny

From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).

Coordinate term: transmisandry

The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'

2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, Edinburgh University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 146:

I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.

2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199:

As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]

2017, Elizabeth Whalley, Colleen Hackett, “Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms”, in Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, volume 20, number 4, pages 456–473:

Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …

2020, G. L. E. Easterbrook-Smith, “'Not on the Street Where We Live': walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation”, in Feminist Media Studies:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Hatred of or contempt for trans women.

Sexism
Whipping Girl
oppositional sexism
transmisogyny


DHV

As you demonstrate higher value (DHV) to the set and neg the target, attraction is created.

2007 February 6, Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 88:

You have to telegraph the notion that everyone wants you. It’s all part of a tactic called DHV, or “demonstration of higher value” in pickup parlance.

2008, Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Penguin Group, →ISBN, →OL, page 31:

“You see, Mother Natures users emotions to enforce certain biological imperatives, and those emotions are triggered by DHVs.”
“Wait, hold on, I’m confused. What do you mean by a DHV?” asked Adam.
“A DHV,” I replied, “is a demonstration of higher value that makes the woman notice that you are of higher value than the average next guy or the last guy.”

2010 January 26, Erik von Markovik, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, New York: Villard, →ISBN, →OL, pages 177–178:

Correct application of DHV lays the foundation for attraction since nearly every woman prefers a guy who is considered a winner.

2011, Benton Miller with Travis Wolfe, The Journal: Man's Quest for the Perfect Match, Moon Planet Publishing, page 27:

(seduction community) Demonstrate higher value / demonstration of higher value.


IOI

If she asks you what your name is, that's an IOI. If she asks you if you're single, that's an IOI. If you take her hands and squeeze them, and she squeezes back, that's an IOI. And as soon as I get three IOIs, I phase-shift.

2005, Neil Strauss, quoting Erik von Markovik, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 151:

She gives you a fake IOI to see if you will start chasing her.

2007 February 6, Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 129:

Pickup artists must continually gauge their reactions, seeking IOI, or “indicators of interest” from the opposite sex.

2008, Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Penguin Group, →ISBN, →OL, page 32:

(seduction community) Initialism of indicator of interest.


stylemog

en-verb

stylemog (third-person singular simple present stylemogs, present participle stylemogging, simple past and past participle stylemogged)

stylemogs (present singular third-person)
stylemogging (participle present)
stylemogged (participle past)
stylemogged (past)

Blend of Style (“pseudonym of Neil Strauss in the seduction community”) + AMOG, reportedly coined by Owen "Tyler Durden" Cook.

“What? I just said ‘awesome.’ That’s because I think it’s hilarious. Seriously, I can't wait to read it.”
They all laughed again. Evidently I was Stylemogging them.

2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 292:

Strauss himself created "Stylemogging", a more subtle technique in which one uses barbed compliments to establish oneself as the supreme arbitrator of whatever is under discussion. "You've got better at that, a bit," is apparently a classic Stylemogging comment. At this level, it all starts to get a little scary.

2005 September 3, “Operation pick up”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-26:

I think what you did was okay. Keep up the good work.

2010 May 25, Bernd Jendrissek, “Re: Anomalous event code: 24052010/1”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet), message-ID <4dfcf912-ea34-47a6-a636-58037997c7f4@v18g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>:

(seduction community) To patronize or talk down to someone by complimenting them as though from a position of authority on the compliment's subject.


AMOG

So he watched the body language AMOGs used to lower his status in sets; he observed the eye contact they used to signify to girls that he was a creep; he analyzed the way they’d pat him on the back with so much force that he’d lose his balance.

2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 234:

You start the whole thing by approaching a “set,” then pick a “target,” throw her a “neg,” assess her IOIs, use your wingman to help you with a DHV, then, working your way from the final attraction phase, A3, you change location for C1 through C3, always ready to counter her ASD and disarm or escape the AMOG. Who ever said women were the more complicated sex?

2008, Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Penguin Group, →ISBN, →OL, page 2:

He backs this up with an understanding of how to annihilate an AMOG—the alpha male of a group—with a vital skill known as ‘amogging’ (making them look stupid).

2011, Anouchka Grose, Why Do Fools Fall in Love: A Realist's Guide to Romance, Tin House Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 197:

(seduction community, incel slang) Initialism of alpha male of group.


Bechdel test

After cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of a 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip that popularized the test. Reportedly first used in 2007.

It also will enable users to determine if a project passes the Bechdel Test, measuring whether two female characters speak to each other about anything other than a man.

2019 April 26, Melena Ryzik, “Screenplay Software Adds Tool to Assess a Script’s Inclusiveness”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Finally, the percentage of musicals that pass the Bechdel test but not the jobs test has also remained consistent―at under 10% for the entire 75 years studied. These results imply that it is far more likely for a musical to pass the Bechdel test if a female character is employed in it; perhaps having a focus other than men for a character aids in more progressive portrayals.

2019 September 5, Jessica Sternfeld, Elizabeth L. Wollman, The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, Routledge, →ISBN:

A feminist test for evaluating a work of fiction by whether it contains (i) at least two women (especially, named female characters) (ii) who talk to each other (iii) about something other than a man.

Alison Bechdel
Bechdel test
Dykes to Watch Out For


butterbody

After the model of butterface, equivalent to an ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her body, great face but her body, etc., under the influence of butter, which see.

Her body really wasn’t that great, on second thought. Her arms and neck were tight and thin, but her hips and legs were a little dumpy. She was sort of a butterbody, really.

2008, Mark Fuller, “match.com”, in On the Beautiful Sea: Eight Stories, A Mutual Respect Books & Music, →ISBN, page 42:

The list began as an online poll letting men of all ages cast their votes for the biggest butterbodies of 2008.
But what exactly is a butterbody?
According to the Spike TV website, butterbodies are girls who are hot everywhere but their bodies.

2009, Nicki Lamont, "Sexist shows should be stopped", The Chronicle (Durham College), Volume 35, Issue 12, 10 February 2009, page 5

We all love Adele. She's pretty, she's soulful, she's talented, and she's strong. Earlier this week Karl Lagerfeld called her a butterbody ⎯ but he's since apologized, proving that her charm is universal.

2012 February 10, Evan Lambert, “Adele: I Was A Boozy Shut In”, in Out:

(colloquial, derogatory) A woman who has an attractive face but a less attractive body.


Muslimah

Muslimahs (plural)
Moslemah (alternative)
Muslima (alternative)

From Arabic مُسْلِمَة (muslima, “female Muslim”); compare Muslim.


bossman

bossmen (plural)
boss man (alternative)
boss-man (alternative)

Valerie nodded her head and added, "The workers don't back you up. They want to cooperate when they don't see the bossman, but as they see the bossman, they get frightened. […]

2004, quoted in Laurie Kroshus Medina, Negotiating Economic Development:

I had a job but the bossman let me go (he said)
I'm sorry but I won't be needing your help no more (I said)
Please, mister bossman, I need this job more than you know
But he gave me my last paycheck and he sent me on out the door

2010, “I Need A Dollar”, performed by Aloe Blacc:

(often mildly derogatory) A male boss or employer.


cryptomenorrhea

From crypto- + meno- + -rrhea or crypto- + menorrhea.

cryptomenorrhoea (alternative)
cryptomenorrhœa (alternative)

A condition in which menstruation occurs, but the flow of the discharge is blocked.


gam gam

Turns out Ruth is actually the "Gam Gam" of one of Manning's most notorious rivals: Tom Brady.

2017 July 13, Nicole Yang, “Watch Tom Brady's 'grandma' deliver a burn to Peyton Manning”, in Boston.com, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

"I'm pregnant," Jazmyne says as she cradles her belly. Lizzie quickly, and excitedly, jumps back in. "So I'm gonna be a gam gam!"

2022 July 7, Asa Hawks, “LOVE AFTER LOCKUP Lizzie Kommes to be a grandma, daughter Jazmyne is pregnant!”, in Starcasm, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

Imagine you get to the cemetery with some flowers, prepared to spend the day at Grandma's grave, joking and laughing and crying with the family, reflecting on all your memories of Gam Gam.

2022 October 28, Eric Nathan, “It Would Be An Absolute Honor If This Woman Would Twerk On Grandma's Grave”, in Barstool Sports, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:


chill girl

[Chill girls naturally] have tons of dude friends, they're not invested in the person they're casually sleeping with, and they like sports and beer.

2014 October 19, Anna Breslaw, “What Happens When the Chill Girl Falls in Love”, in Cosmopolitan:

(slang) A girlfriend considered by her boyfriend to be self-sufficient, "low-maintenance" and "chilled out".


lactonazi

We have a phrase for some of the more zealous advocates of the Le Leche League……LactoNazis. Which refers to a person who would advise risking dehydration rather than giving an infant formula.

1993 July 31, David Pollard, “______-NAZIS!”, in bit.listserv.uus-l (Usenet):

On the other hand, if you know nothing about the differences between artificial feeding and breastfeeding, or if you DO know the differences, and *choose* to feed your baby formula instead of breast milk, your guilt comes from YOUR OWN knowledge that breastfeeding is better. Not from "lactonazis" or "militants," but from your own mind.

1996 May 10, Van Piercy (quoting Heidi Murphy), “Guilt and formula: Heidi's LACTNET post”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet):

I'm very happy out her^([sic]) in the far left of lactonazi land, and I couldn't be here without all of you!

1996 May 15, Dave & Colette, “Re: Guilt and formula: Heidi's LACTNET post”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory) An overzealous lactivist.


cisnormativity

The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity.

2012, Matthew Heinz, “Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses”, in Karen Ross, editor, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 336:

These are the bodily consequences of cisnormativity—the prevalent and presumptuous assumption that cissexuality is the only acceptable and legible form of gender identity—which show us why, when we engage in feminist activism and inquiry, we must be trans-inclusive in our efforts to ensure that every human being deserves decency and justice when wronged.

2012 Fall, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, “Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity”, in Bluestockings, page 41:

(LGBTQ, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches their biological sex.


cisnormative

en-adj

cisnormative (comparative more cisnormative, superlative most cisnormative)

more cisnormative (comparative)
most cisnormative (superlative)

This erasure reflects the priorities, biases, and oversights of writers and publishers who function in a cisnormative system, one in which people are assumed to be cissexual.

2009, Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, & Michelle Boyce, "'I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives': How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People", Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Volume 20, Issue 5, September-October 2009, page 353

Cisnormative assumptions are tied in with discourses surrounding HIV and STIs.

2012 October, Jen Roberton, Emily Milton, “Cisnormative assumptions and queer sex”, in The Strand, volume 55, number 5,29, Victoria University, page 4:

In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia.

2013 October 11, Bailey Dineen, “My Queer Rage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 130, number 34, Cornell University, page 7:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Of or pertaining to cisnormativity.


feministly

en-adv

feministly (comparative more feministly, superlative most feministly)

more feministly (comparative)
most feministly (superlative)

I would like to acknowledge […] Sue Wright for sharing her knowledge feministly […]

2000, Stephen Hussey, Paul Richard Thompson, The Roots of Environmental Consciousness:

So we have Hero writing not very feministly to Leander: 'I cannot be patient for Love! We burn with equal fires, but I am not equal to you in strength; men methinks must have stronger natures. […]

2013, John O'Connell, For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication:


brother-husband

Coordinate term: sister-wife

Dala Kumara was seized by a deep passion; he carried his sister away to the forest and lived with her there, subsisting on wild foods. One day, when her brother-husband was away, Giri Devi ran away and hanged herself from some forest vines.

1996, Allen W. Johnson, Douglass Richard Price-Williams, Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature, →ISBN, page 188:

According to the Pyramid Texts — a collection of prayers, hymns, and spells for the dead — Isis foresaw the murder of her brother-husband and mourned for him before the event.

2005, Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology - Volume 6, →ISBN, page 764:

King Purukutsa could never forget that his queen was his younger sister, on of his own blood. They didn't beget any children. Purukutsani who was also an equally rightful claimant to the royal household ruled the kingdom like a real queen, all the reins of the state, which were formally with her elder brother-husband, securely in her hands.

2006, Shankar Mokashi-Punekar, Awadheswari, →ISBN, page 1:

Rufous Rudra Silvercloud, Bodiless Byron's firstborn son, his Beast Master, also his Storm Lord; - brother-husband to sister-wife Umashakti; - joint devic over-ruler of the former Weirdom of Kanin City when the ever-expanding Empire of Lathakra reached its walls; rather than either surrendering or fighting the Thanatoids and their allies, including the Unity of Chaos, he joined them.

2011, Jim McPherson, The Death's Head Hellion: Sedonplay, 4824/25 Year of the Dome, →ISBN:

A man who is simultaneously brother and husband to his wife.


feminazism

Mike Schwartz raised the "matriarchal society in Sci Fi" issue as indicating that Sci Fi writers had experienced "feminazism."

1993 September 23, Tom Tilley, “Re: Who are the Feminazis?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), message-ID <1993Sep23.011720.16180@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>:

(derogatory) Aggressive militant radical feminism.


captainess

From Middle English captensse; equivalent to captain + -ess. Piecewise doublet of chieftainess.

the captainesses of industry


menoxenia

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From meno- (“month, menstrual”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + -ia.


transsex

en-verb

transsex (third-person singular simple present transsexes, present participle transsexing, simple past and past participle transsexed)

transsexes (present singular third-person)
transsexing (participle present)
transsexed (participle past)
transsexed (past)

There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.

2009, Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti, Psychotherapist Revealed, →ISBN, page 184:

Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.

2009, Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, →ISBN, page 136:

(transitive) To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.


transsex

New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.

2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights, →ISBN, page 65:


transsex

Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.

2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, →ISBN, page 41:

(rare) Transsexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare transgender.)


slut-shaming

But now the hit musical Grease has become the latest target of ‘woke’ critics who have condemned it for racism, sexism, homophobia and ‘slut-shaming’.

2021 January 2, Katie Hind, “Grease is 'racist, rapey, homophobic and slut-shaming' and should never be shown on TV again, say woke snowflakes”, in The Daily Mail:

(uncountable) The act of making a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.


chickfriend

chickfriends (plural)
chick-friend (alternative)
chick friend (alternative)


genderism

en-noun

genderism (countable and uncountable, plural genderisms)

[pages 108-109:] Virtually all networks and platforms mobilizing against more pluralistic and non-heteronormative (and less biologistic), sexual education at schools systematically equal gender with "genderism", that is with "gender ideology".
[page 183:] [...] in Poland examples of women made famous by their opposition to "genderism" include [...]

2017, Roman Kuhar, David Paternotte, Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

The letter reads: 'Gender ideology results from many decades of ideological and cultural changes rooted in Marxism and neomarxism promoted by some feminist movements and from sexual revolution. Genderism [...] claims that biological sex does not have any social significance and what matters is gender, cultural sex, […] According to this ideology, one can freely choose whether to be a man or a woman; one may also select their own sexual orientation' (List Pasterski 2013).

2020, Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson, Jimmy Turner, Theorising Cultures of Equality, Routledge, →ISBN:

(in right-wing usage, derogatory) Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.


muxe

At the back of the file, walking proudly, wearing a new pantsuit and a fresh in his hair, was a mushe. Though I was surprised to see him, no one else batted an eye. He was clearly just another part of the women's procession.

1985 August 10, Kate Raisz, “The Gay Mushes”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 10:

In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca, a male-assigned person who dresses and acts in a feminine manner, and may be regarded as a third gender.


skin and blister

skin and blister (plural skin and blisters)

'Are you Lizzy?' asked Nurse Wharton of my skin and blister. 'Yes,' said Lizzy, suddenly shy in the face of uniformed authority.

2011, Mary Jane Staples, Down Lambeth Way:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


misgender

en-verb

misgender (third-person singular simple present misgenders, present participle misgendering, simple past and past participle misgendered)

misgenders (present singular third-person)
misgendering (participle present)
misgendered (participle past)
misgendered (past)

Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.

Gendering is the process of classifying and identifying the gender of other people, quickly and usually unconsciously, based on just a few visual and/or audio clues. This process of gendering privileges cisgendered people as few cisgendered people have had the experience of being misgendered. The experience of being misgendered is common for all transgendered people before they transition and for many transgendered people after they transition.

2013, Kelby Harrison, “Introduction: Many Have Passed; Some Have Failed”, in Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 12:

With a few notable exceptions[…]reports from the mainstream press willfully misgendered Manning while reporting this news.

2013 August 22, Katie McDonough, “Media willfully misgender Chelsea Manning”, in Salon, archived from the original on 2013-07-15:

Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.

2014, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE, →ISBN, page 63:

Occasionally, of course, we misgender people by accident. As a child is transitioning from presenting as a boy to presenting as a girl, for example, it may take time for friends and adults around that child to remember to use the pronoun "she," no matter how loving, accepting, and well meaning they are.

2016, Michele Angello, Ali Bowman, Raising the Transgender Child:

Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]

2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 232:

Socially empowering bots are out there. For instance, @she_not_he is “a bot politely correcting Twitter users who misgender Caitlyn Jenner.”

2016 November, Douglas Guilbeault, Samuel Woolley, “How Twitter Bots Are Shaping the Election”, in The Atlantic:

A cis man who passes easily as male—meaning he was assigned male at birth, he identifies as male, he embodies his culture's ideals of masculinity comfortably, and he has never experienced being misgendered—is at the pinnacle of gender privilege and gender identity power.

2019, Katie Steele, Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children:

Trump campaign adviser Jenna Ellis intentionally misgendered Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, on Twitter early Monday morning.

2020, Tim Fitzsimons, “Trump campaign adviser 'won't apologize' for misgendering trans health official”, in NBC News:

Stern (misgendered by Mansfield) is reckless and enthusiastic, and ‘flings [her] net wide; [she] brings it in teeming,[…]’

2021, Robbie Moore, “Aliens”, in James Purdon, editor, British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age?, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Nation and Empire):

Taking people's pronouns seriously is important because it makes the difference between accepting or dismissing someone's existence. Have you ever noticed how we are usually very careful not to misgender a baby for fear of offending their parents (especially if the mistake is misgendering a baby boy for a girl)? When someone is pregnant, everybody is anxious to know the sex of the baby. Yet, many people in our society seem not to want to make an effort to use the "they" pronouns with someone who requests it. Isn't it a little strange?

2023, Silva Neves, “Sex and gender”, in Sexology: The Basics, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

(transitive) To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally; for example, calling a woman "son" or a boy "she".

misgenrigi

to refer to a person as the wrong gender

Coordinate term: misnumber

Leonie was always, in fact, the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun, […]

2017, Rebecca Schuman, Schadenfreude, A Love Story:

Our first demonstration at the Canadian border—where we’d planned to test rumors about PWAs being denied entry into Canada by announcing we all had AIDS—fizzled when our bus entered the country without incident, save the late realization that our bilingual T-shirts had misgendered the virus—it's “le SIDA,” not “la SIDA”—causing a frantic scramble for sharpies and eyebrow pencils to correct the offending vowel.

2022, Ron Goldberg, “Storming the Ivory Tower”, in Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York, Fordham University Press, →ISBN:

Next is a list of misgendered words between the two languages:
Similar words with different genders […]

2022, John Whitlam, Agripino S. Silveira, Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide:

(transitive, grammar) To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.


trans*

trans + * (a wildcard in programming), indicating that it could stand for transgender or transsexual.

gender identities
gender identity#English

Non-cisgender; an umbrella term encompassing transgender, transsexual, and often also genderqueer/nonbinary, genderfluid, third-gender, etc. — all gender identities other than cisgender.


transgirl

Blend of transgender + girl, equivalent to trans- + girl or trans + girl.

But it seemed there was never a flinch or second thought on his part about being with a transgirl, even when they started having sex, some few months into the relationship.

2007, Cris Beam, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 199:

Sitting on my stomach, a few inches from my face, was a miniature French version of the transgirl I should have been—a girl too brave, too honest, too strong, too much of a person not to be herself.

2012, Joy Ladin, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, →ISBN, page 72:

Parent of a 6-year-old transgirl

2013, Stephanie Brill, Rachel Pepper, The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, →ISBN:


trans girl

trans girls (plural)
transgirl (alternative)


Boston marriage

en-noun

Boston marriage (plural Boston marriages)

Unknown, first used in late 19th century New England, and sometimes connected to The Bostonians (1885) by Henry James, which describes such a relationship.

Two women, as well known as Susan Channing and Edna D. Cheney, have made separate appeals for this new departure of female habit. A Boston marriage is described to be a sympathetic union of two women who have not been able to make good and agreeable matches with members of the opposite sex.

[1894 May 3, “Vanity Fair”, in The Argonaut, page 9:

[…] several times I was within an inch of coming down here and asking you out for a ride in my red convertible, but the Weird Sisters (indicating Meg and Louisa) told me not to disturb you. But I'm big enough to understand; I wasn't born yesterday. I understand this sort of menage, you know; it's called a Boston Marriage.

[1952, John Horne Burns, Cry of the Children:

Often, in marked contrast to Boston marriages in previous times, these lesbians keep their asexuality hidden from the community.

2002, Marilyn Yalom, Laura L. Carstensen, Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges, University of California Press, page 81:

Thus, unlike in contemporary relationships, participants in a Boston marriage may or may not have considered genital activity to be an important element in their relationship.

2006, Laura Castañeda, Shannon B. Campbell, News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity, SAGE, page 217:

(historical) A long-term monogamous relationship between two unmarried women, especially in New England between the 18th and early 20th centuries.


phallocrat

One who advocates or imposes phallocracy.


War on Women

(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) Political efforts and initiatives to reduce women's rights, especially their reproductive rights.


genderquake

From gender + quake, coined by Naomi Wolf.

These regions have genderquakes of their own.

1998, Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture:

I have shown that the malestream has largely ignored a genderquake in sociology although a few men are very disturbed about it, and a larger minority of men are excited by it.

2003, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology:

I believe she is quite right about the systemic gender crisis it caused. While Wolf marks the hearing as a moment that killed patriarchy, I understand the genderquake to have had the following effects[…]

2008, Sara Lynn McKinnon, The Discursive Formation of Gender in Women's Gendered Claims to U.S. Asylum, page 6:

A fundamental shift of power from men to women.


reproductive right

reproductive right (plural reproductive rights)

If the reproductive right is interpreted as basic rights of one individual in contrast to the right to life of another, especially that of a defenseless unborn baby, it raises certain fundamental moral questions.

2007, Alex Vadakumthala, Reproductive Health: Catholic Ethics and Praxis in India, New Delhi: Health Commission, Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15, →ISBN:

But the vacancy on the court is a reminder that the next president will have great influence over the future of reproductive rights.

2016 March 3, “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

When this reproductive right extends to a control over someone else's body it is an intrusion into another person's body to have children. […] Surrogacy practice involves a control of another human being's body to fulfil one's own reproductive desires and this procedure violates another person's human dignity and reproductive rights.

2018, Sheela Saravanan, A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India, Singapore: Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174, →ISBN:

(chiefly in the plural) Any right associated with family planning, such as the right to birth control and the right to abortion.


saas

(India) A mother-in-law, especially the mother of the groom, who lives with the married couple.


umkhwetha

umkhwetha (plural abakwetha or abakhwetha)

Among the Xhosa, a young male undergoing a group circumcision rite to mark the arrival of adulthood.


abakwetha

abakwetha (plural abakwethas or abakwetha)

abakwethas (plural)
abakwetha (plural)
abakweta (alternative)

From Xhosa abakwetha, from aba- + kwetha (“initiate”).

(South Africa) A young Xhosa man undergoing the ritual initiation into manhood.

(South Africa) The traditional initiation period into manhood.


phantom pregnancy

phantom pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural phantom pregnancies)

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second-wave feminism

Obviously, the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s could be pretty factional as well; there were vicious internal fights over issues like lesbianism and pornography, as well as over white feminists’ blind spots about race.

2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times:

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.


third-wave feminism

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1990s as a response to perceived failures of second-wave initiatives to address the needs of women of many races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds.


first-wave feminism

The question that many lesbians asked was whether all this work was being accomplished at the expense of other goals of the organization. Some made the frightening comparison to the "First Wave" of feminism, which dissolved after women achieved the right to vote.

1978 December 16, Cnidy Stein, “The Lavender Menace Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 21, page 9:

The original period of concerted feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century, focusing on de jure gender inequalities, primarily that of suffrage (the right to vote).


Norplant

A form of birth control consisting of levonorgestrel capsules implanted under the skin.


beanflicker

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womance

en-verb

womance (third-person singular simple present womances, present participle womancing, simple past and past participle womanced)

womances (present singular third-person)
womancing (participle present)
womanced (participle past)
womanced (past)


manosphere

From man + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.

2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84:

Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.

2018, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian:

The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.

2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:

(Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, the redpill movement or incels.


v-ring

a vaginal or intravaginal ring that releases hormones for the purpose of contraception


tube tying

en-noun

tube tying (countable and uncountable, plural tube tyings)

The procedure of tying the Fallopian tubes for the purpose of contraception.


rachipagus

(medicine, obstetrics) A conjoined twin, or a pair of conjoined twins, exhibiting fusion of the back.


cissexist

From cis- + sexist or cissex(ual) + -ist.


Breastapo

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In that vulnerable post-natal daze, brainwashed by the NCT and other hard-line members of the Breastapo, I almost believed it was better to starve my son than pollute him with formula.

2011 May 11, Anna Maxted, “Breastfeeding: Protect us from the Breastapo”, in The Telegraph:

Not all women can produce enough milk to feed their babies, and many push themselves to the brink of sanity in the attempt to do so, partly because of the pressure piled on to them by the Breastapo.

2011 June 21, Emma Cowing, “The 'Breastapo' need to lay down their arms”, in The Scotsman:

I'd heard about the Breastapo but hadn't encountered a member yet. These are midwives and nurses whose keenness on breastfeeding somewhat overwhelms their ability to be kind and considerate.

2013, Jen Wight, Day 6: When Motherhood & Madness Collide, Green Olive Press, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) Overzealous lactivists who pressure women to breastfeed and criticize formula-feeders, taken as a group.


hooksian

en-adj

hooksian (comparative more hooksian, superlative most hooksian)

more hooksian (comparative)
most hooksian (superlative)

The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […]

1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67:

Ultimately, the play centers on signs, language, and back talk in a bell hooksian guise: how black women gain control over their environment by calling out and redressing the governing social constructs […]

2005, Carol Allen, Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000, page 110:

The most brutal character, O'Dog, (and therefore in hooksian logic the character who has swallowed the white myth, hook, line and sinker) survives at the end of the film.

2005, Paul Gormley, The New-brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema:

Of or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.


poor little rich girl

en-noun

poor little rich girl (plural poor little rich girls)

One is a cheerful and spunky orphan, another is a poor little rich girl. (The poor little rich girl speaks with a British accent. The spunky orphan wears her baseball cap backwards, so you don't have a problem figuring out who's who.)

2003, Svetlana Boym, Ninochka, page 172:

Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls. Mandy was a poor little poor girl, a mousy waif who lived out Thika Road, far from Muthaiga.

2006, Dorothy Stephens, Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959, page 96:

So, are you a poor little rich girl, slumming it and hiding from boyfriends who only want your trust fund instead of you?

2010, Michelle L. Levigne, Have Yourself a Faerie Little Christmas:

(idiomatic) An unhappy young woman from a wealthy background.


LMR

I figured she'd probably started dating someone else, someone who had been able to break through her LMR.

2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 372:

A woman's LMR threshold may differ from person to person, and a woman's own LMR threshold will change depending on the value of the man she is about to sleep with and other circumstances.

2007 February 6, Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 200:

The first way around this L.M.R is, if she says, "We shouldn't be doing this", reply, "You are right. This is so bad." And continue kissing.

2012, Greg Dean, Elite Dating Skills: Black Book, Sonic Audio Publishing, →ISBN:

(seduction community) Initialism of last-minute resistance.


biofather

biofathers (plural)
bio-father (alternative)

A biological father (especially one who does not act as a father).


biomother

Biological mother (especially one who does not act as a mother)


biodad

‹WHAT THE HELL, BIO-DAD?! I know you lost your mom and are probably dealing with all sorts of stuff... ...but you just ditch your son, and you don't talk to your daughter at all before leaving town?!›

2022 November 28, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Nov 28, 2022:


top surgery

top surgery (countable and uncountable, plural top surgeries)

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Sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery#English

(LGBTQ, surgery) Sex reassignment surgery performed on the chest.

Breast augmentation
breast augmentation#English


bottom surgery

bottom surgery (countable and uncountable, plural bottom surgeries)

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I am a 37-yr-old female-to-male living full-time as a man since 1980, when I had my mastectomy. Recently completed my bottom surgery ("genitoplasty").

1998 December 13, Lou Sullivan, [Correspondence from Lou Sullivan to Paul Johnson (December 13, 1988)]:

Again, there is not a good bottom surgery option for an FTM. I can see why they skip that step. And it is very easy for an FTM to be stealth.

2005 February 13, Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@earthlink.net>, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-10-17:

According to Henry Benjamin, for example, most trans folx were thought to "have no overt sex life at all," at least prior to medical interventions, and particularly bottom surgeries.

2021, Lucie Fielding, “Unimaginable Bodies”, in Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, e-book edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page [unumbered]:

(LGBTQ, surgery) Sex reassignment surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.


bean flicker

From bean (“clitoris”) + flicker, referring to masturbation.

2001, Silverbullet, Re: rosie the grade school drop-out gets put in the corner again.., in usenet alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater
It's called the 21st century, beanflicker. Ever plan on visiting some day? You fucking right wingers are all alike. Really? I don't find them to be. Of course you don't, you fuckwit. That's why you racist, corrupt, homopobic nazi fascist bastards all stick together

2004, The Saltex Brujo, Beware that cockbiting muff diver upstairs! Group: alt.galactically.pointless
Fucking muff diving butt sucking bean flicker! On and on...

You 're lezzers. A couple of beanflickers, gaplappers, switch hitters.

2006, Mike Edwards, Friendly Fire - Page 258

(slang, vulgar) A person who stimulates their own clitoris; a masturbator.


minipill

A contraceptive pill containing only synthetic progestogens (progestins), not estrogen.


she-he

They are the ugliest assortment of hes, shes, he-shes, and she-hes in the world.

2009, Tom Walker, Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct, page 98:

(informal, derogatory, offensive) A transsexual or transgender male; a male person who is assigned female at birth.


femmage

femmage (countable and uncountable, plural femmages)

Coined by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer in the 1970s.

Any artwork created by women by assembling objects, as by collage, photomontage, etc.


Gilliganian

en-adj

Gilliganian (comparative more Gilliganian, superlative most Gilliganian)

more Gilliganian (comparative)
most Gilliganian (superlative)

Of or relating to Carol Gilligan (born 1936), American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist.


stationmistress

At Corris the present G.W.R. operations are in charge of a stationmistress, recalling earlier days at Tan-y-Bwlch on the Festiniog line.

1943 March and April, “Notes and News: On the Corris and Festiniog Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 114:

(rail transport) The woman in charge of a railway station; a female stationmaster.


PUA

Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).

2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-01:

Many also did not know that there is a name for men who often use such cruel tactics in pursuit of women: PUAs, or pickup artists.

2019 December 29, Li Yuan, “For China’s Pickup Artists, Sex Is the Goal and Urging Suicide Is a Tactic”, in The New York Times:

(seduction community) Initialism of pickup artist.


godbrother

From Middle English godbrother, equivalent to god- + brother.

I got excited at the prospect of even more fun in this wonderful house with my godbrothers.

2008, Sharon Cheston, Faded Rainbows: Psychospiritual Therapeutic Journeys, iUniverse, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:

Wes and his godbrother, Red, moved toward the cheese bus as it slowly rolled to a stop in Dundee Village.

2010, Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Spiegel & Grau, published 2010, →ISBN, page 97:

Her worldview may also be favorably tweaked by her having a godbrother with cerebral palsy.

2013, J. W. Wiley, The Nigger in You: Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments, Stylus, published 2013, →ISBN, page 35:

"My mom took him in as her godson, so of course he's my godbrother!" Jia Li said with a hint of pride in her voice. Old Shen, you are awesome!

2019, Hou ShenDaShu, The Happiness, Funstory, →ISBN:

The son or godson of one's godparent, or the godson of one's parent.


fauxminist

This organization exists to take away a freedom that is important to every woman of childbearing age. It is more accurate to call them FAUXminists against Choice!

1992 October 6, Mark Ira Kaufman, “Feminists For Life...Huh?”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):

"And you call yourself a feminist!" the baby sneers, her contempt as ill-concealed as a teenage boy's designer underpants. "Fauxminist! Fauxminist!" her big sister shrills.

2008 November 15, Susan Maushart, “Lippy pitbulls”, in The Australian:

2012, Bianca Pencz, "Beyoncé: feminist or fauxminist?", Vancouver Observer, 25 April 2012 (used in title only)

(slang, derogatory) An insincere or inauthentic feminist.


cockaludicrous

cockaludicrous (comparative more cockaludicrous, superlative most cockaludicrous)

more cockaludicrous (comparative)
most cockaludicrous (superlative)

From cock + -a- + ludicrous. Introduced in a 1987 book by feminist Mary Daly.

If we consent to this cockaludicrous conceit—if we believe that the Earth is a lump of unconscious matter owned by elite men—we are far more susceptible to the belief that we are equally powerless, passive, and possessed.

1993 October 1, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth, Santa Fe: Bear & Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:

What bothers me most is her dualistic outlook - and "men = bad, women = good" -- even *if* as she's stated it isn't *all* men and *all* women; Goddess Knows that men in power have been *such* jerks!!! so it's not hard to see where she's coming from, and in certain moods it just gives me great pleasure to see her blast 'em and expose their "cockaludicrous" commentary […]

1997 October 31, Richard Holmes, “Re: Feminist Theology ???”, in alt.feminism (Usenet):

The world could be so cockaludicrous, so full of snools and dickspeakers.

2010 December 26, Sara Corbett, “Gyno-theologian”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, page 14:

(rare, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Ridiculously androcentric or patriarchal.


womanistic

womanistic (comparative more womanistic, superlative most womanistic)

more womanistic (comparative)
most womanistic (superlative)


Richian

Richian (comparative more Richian, superlative most Richian)

more Richian (comparative)
most Richian (superlative)

Of or relating to Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feminist.


male gaze

(sociology) The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.


stepdaddy

And because I was so quiet and mopy my stepdaddy Winn would get great kicks out of tickling me till I almost had a spasm.

2010, Sarah Bruce Kelly, Jazz Girl, page 6:


play the gender card

en-verb

play the gender card (third-person singular simple present plays the gender card, present participle playing the gender card, simple past and past participle played the gender card)

plays the gender card (present singular third-person)
playing the gender card (participle present)
played the gender card (participle past)
played the gender card (past)

Oh, I don't wanna play the gender card card right now. You wanna play a card? Let's play the "let's not die" card.

2003, 01:04:56 from the start, in Finding Nemo, spoken by Marlin (Albert Brooks):

What worries me is that she is accused of "playing the gender card" when citing the old boys’ club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.

2008 January 8, Gloria Steinem, “Women Are Never Front-Runners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

[…] the CAS was going to lose two of its best teachers; tolerate a mediocre one who had skillfully played the gender card by hiding behind her pregnancy; and retain an ineffective one.

2010, Robert Fedorchek, The Translators: A Novel, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 463:

How can you tell the difference between someone playing the gender card and someone actually calling out misogyny when you so obviously have no expertise on the matter?

2013 June 19, “Did someone play their gender card at you? Poor baby.”, in We, the Intelligentsia, …, archived from the original on 2014-03-29:

(idiomatic, often derogatory) To assert that sexism is involved in a situation, especially in order to exploit sexist or antisexist attitudes.


metoidioplasty

metoidioplasties (plural)
metaoidioplasty (alternative)
metaidoioplasty (alternative)
meta (alternative)

From meta- (“change”) + Ancient Greek αἰδοῖον (aidoîon, “genitals”) + -plasty.

der

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

A form of female-to-male sex reassignment surgery in which the clitoris, enlarged by testosterone therapy, is enhanced in size and appearance to provide a penis.


queen dowager

en-noun

queen dowager (plural queen dowagers or queens dowager or queens dowagers)

queen dowagers (plural)
queens dowager (plural)
queens dowagers (plural)

The new Royal Saloon rode roughly at first. It was originally a four-wheel carriage, and as such it was used by Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, but before the Queen [Queen Victoria] travelled in it the body was mounted on an eight-wheel frame.

1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 363:


berdachism

English settlers, in turn, solidly repressed berdachism in North America, although a score of nineteenth-century texts reveal a lack of sexual assimilation.

2000, John W. M. Hallock, The American Byron, page 19:

(anthropology, now offensive) The state or practice of being transgender or third gender in a Native American society.


triggerwoman

Again, Union men arrested not just the triggerwoman, but the men in the house as well, holding them equally accountable for the actions of anyone in the household.

2011, Judkin Browning, Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina, page 75:


transdar

From trans + -dar, after the pattern of gaydar.

I found out about 20 minutes into the workshop that at least six of the men in attendance had been born women. Not one of them had twigged my "transdar."

1996 July 24, Janet W. Hardy, “Re: Independence Day - The movie”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):

My hearing isn't that great, but my transdar immediately zoned in on him.

2000 July 26, Cheryl, “Re: everyone flame me, I deserve it.”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

Other respondents offered similar descriptions of transdar as a keen understanding of the most important sex cues.

2013, Asia Friedman, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59:

(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is transgender by observing that person.


MFPR

Abbreviation of multifetal pregnancy reduction. The abortion of one or more fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy.


COCP

Initialism of combined oral contraceptive pill.


pangender

These critiques distort Gilligan's thesis, it seems to me; she can be read as arguing that the morality of women is currently undervalued culturally and as calling for its reintegration into pangender morality, not for its use as a universal standard.

1988, Catherine Lutz, Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll & Their Challenge to Western Theory, University of Chicago Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 234:

On one level, these changes many have served as a defensive maneuver to tone down some of the actor's pangender sexual magnetism and the homoeroticized responses associated with him as a male theatrical idol.

1996, Gaylyn Studler, This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

Then came the tidal wave of drugs, specifically heroin, and what had once been a haven for male alcoholics became a pangender hole-in-the-wall hideout for depraved junkies.

2002, James Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli, My life in the NYPD: Jimmy the Wags, Onyx, published 2002, →ISBN:

Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender.

2012, Alessandra Robertson, "Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 14

Just don't be surprised if you meet someone who identifies as a "non-binary neutrois pangender genderpunk autistic aspiequeer queer lithsexual punk anti-kyriarchist anarchist."

2012, Harrison Vaporciyan, "Tumbling into Trouble", The Oracle (Stratford High School, Houston, Texas), Volume 41, Issue 4, 16 November 2012, page 8

Ranging from pangender to genderqueer and even intersex, the choices Facebook has included accurately reflects the diversity and differences of this day and age.

2014 February 25, Aysha Mahmood, “Media companies take a more progressive stance on gender”, in The Daily Campus, volume 120, number 92, University of Connecticut, page 4:

(LGBTQ, of a person) Identifying with all genders.


ECP

For maximum effectiveness, ECP treatment should be started as soon as possible after unprotected intercourse, and within 120 hours.

2007, Felicia Stewart with James Trussell and Paul F.A. Van Look, “Emergency Contraception”, in Robert A. Hatcher, James Trussell, Anita L. Nelson, Willard Cates Jr., Felicia H. Stewart, Deborah Kowal, editors, Contraceptive Technology, 19th edition, Ardent Media, page 106:

Initialism of emergency contraceptive pill.


ECP

(Singapore, in road signs) Initialism of East Coast Parkway.


bamboo ceiling

Modeled on glass ceiling, popularized in 2005 by Jane Hyun in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, see quotations.

The title Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling was selected because it acknowledges that Asian Americans do indeed face obstacles in the workplace and it asserts that there are cultural barriers that play a role in impeding career advancement.

2005, Jane Hyun, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, Harper Business, →ISBN, page xx:

Schools where admission is purely through a test, like the elite public New York City high school Stuyvesant, often have large percentages of Asian-Americans. The University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles are more than half Asian. That doesn’t help them integrate effectively, to pierce what some call the bamboo ceiling in the corporate and political worlds.

2012 November 1, Ethan Bronner, “Asian-Americans in the Argument”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-28:

Many Asian American attorneys are finding they may have excelled in law school and were able to land their first job, but their careers are not moving forward the way they would like. It has been described as a “bamboo ceiling.”

2014 April 14, Ed Silverstein, “Asian-American GCs meet in Chicago to expand career opportunities”, in Inside Counsel, retrieved 2014-04-28:

Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.


milk knot

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(medicine) A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.


child groom

Coordinate term: child bride

In the UK, parliaments for children, satirical culture for youngsters, training for teenage fathers, support for suicidal preteens, and refuges for child grooms are all developments which betray a newly recognized maturity and agency in children […]

2011, J. Marshall Beier, The Militarization of Childhood, page 89:

A very young groom (male who is to be married).


femme fan

femme fan (plural femme fans or femme fen)

femme fans (plural)
femme fen (plural)
femmefan (alternative)

Here was a picture whose screen fortunes must have caused much uncertainty as to the femme fan reaction. As it turns out all the signs are that the woman angle is favorable and that sets the picture for better than average money at the box office

1931 February 18, Alfred Rushford Greason, “Dracula”, in Variety:

Samuel Merwin, Jr., editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, said much the same when he lamented in the December, 1946 (p. 100) that he didn't have a letter from a "femme fan" to publish that month and encouraged his female readers to send in letters.

1946 December, Eric Leif Davin, quoting Samuel Merwin, Jr., Partners in Wonder, published 2006, →ISBN:

Both reviews singled out the fact that Como's songs were greeted by a "frenzied screaming from the teenage femme fan fringe that follows Como around."

c. 1953, Malcolm Macfarlane, Ken Crossland, Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record, published 2009, →ISBN, page 86:

Trust a femme-fan to start a stream-of-consciousness conversation every time.

1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The End”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 2013-07-21:

(dated, fandom slang) A female fan, particularly of science fiction.


femfan

Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, page 31:

So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am.

1953 August, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 133:

When I went to my first science fiction convention in 1961, fandom was entirely white and 80 percent male. Women were marginalized as "femfans." Gay people were in the closet.

2010, Eleanor Arnason, Mammoths of the Great Plains, →ISBN, page 120:

(dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.


polygender

[…] those whose gender identity or expression is at odds with conventional understandings of dichotomous sex/gender categories (gender-neutral, polygender or genderqueer).

2012, Richard Ward, Ian Rivers, Mike Sutherland, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing:

Androgyny—the presence of male and female characteristics in one individual. Androgynous individuals describe themselves as ambigender, polygender, or genderless.

2014, Manivong J. Ratts, Paul B. Pedersen, Counseling for Multiculturalism and Social Justice:

Having a mixture of genders; neither purely male nor purely female.


anarcha-feminist

anarcha-feminists (plural)
anarcho-feminist (alternative)

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcha-feminism.


incel

incel (countable and uncountable, plural incels)

Blend of involuntary + celibate. Coined by "Alana" in 1997 on an online forum (originally as invcel). Came to widespread usage in the mid-2010s, chiefly online, but now more widespread.

(uncountable, seduction community, informal) "Involuntary celibacy": the state of being not sexually active despite wishing to be.


incel

People who are 'incel' are often suspected as being gay. It's annoying.

2001 May 30, Gra - gra, “I love you!”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

(seduction community) Not having sexual relations despite wishing to.


manfiction

He sang the praises of Elmore Leonard, Chabon, Malamud and a host of tough-guy “manfiction” novelists, to use his affectionately satirical term.

2007 March 18, Ben Neihart, “Prince of Darkness”, in The New York Times:

And current manfiction certainly gives women a better deal than they got in the pulps of yesteryear, when most were presented as barracuda debs in frilly negligees.

2008 October 12, Stephen King, “Who Says Real Men Don't Read?”, in Entertainment Weekly:

A professed affinity for Manfiction was a central tenet of this precarious Cool Girl identity; a Cool Girl was always ready to support the literary analysis presented by the dudes, even after consuming a fifth of bourbon at three in the morning.

2010, Amanda Hess (quoting Tiger Beatdown), "The Morning After: Manfiction and Mandles Edition", Washington City Paper, 1 June 2010

(informal) Literary fiction which appeals to, or is marketed toward, men, typically written by male authors and centering on male characters.


dick lit

dick (“penis”) + lit (“literature”), as a play on chick lit.

"I am really tired of reading about sad women and bad sex, especially in laddish terms - all that dick-lit stuff," she says dismissively.

2002 October 13, Jackie McGlone, “To hold but not to have”, in Scotland on Sunday:

She knew that he read books. Okay, so it was that trendy kind of real-life adventure-tragedy-on-Everest-in-Antarctica-in-Krakatoa-with-sharks-with-fire stuff. Sure, it was Dick Lit (a term Nina had coined in response to Chick Lit), but they were books, for god's sake, and not just the sports or business pages that many men considered "reading."

2004, Leslie Schur, The Dog Walker, Atria Books, →ISBN:

Peter Cameron's Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You has been touted as the current generation's Catcher in the Rye (both the Chbosky and Cameron titles provide teen dick lit alternatives to the many adolescent chick lit offerings).

2009, Malina Saval, The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens, Basic Books, →ISBN:

(informal, vulgar) Literature which appeals to, or is marketed toward, male readers.


women's troubles

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(dated, euphemistic) Unpleasant symptoms associated with menstruation.


younger sister

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see younger, sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)

妹

for younger sisters in general or one's own

妹さん

used when referring to someone else's younger sister


younger brother

younger brother (plural younger brothers)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see younger, brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)

أَخ الْأَصْغَر

multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations

أَخ الصَّغِير

ʔaḵ aṣ-ṣaḡīr


chilly climate

chilly (“unfriendly or distant and cool”) + climate (“the context in general of a particular situation”)

A chilly climate is not conducive for women students' learning...

2008, Kimberly Turner Helms, Self-reflection During Transition to College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, page 39:

Most frequently, issues of chilly climate are noted among women pursuing doctorates in the sciences and engineering.

2012, Margaret W Sallee, “The Individual and the Institution”, in On Becoming a Scholar: Socialization and Development in Doctoral Education, page 141:

(idiomatic) A male-dominated environment where both overt and subtle forms of discrimination lead to the unequal treatment of women


cishet

Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4

While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality.

2013, Ariel Estrella, "Hegemony, heteronormativity and amoeba", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College), 18 October 2013

[…] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]

2014, Bec Eames, "In defence of unattractive feminism", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 12, page 17

(informal) Cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual.


cishet

People who identify as cisgender and heterosexual, or cishets, are certainly more privileged in today’s society than the LGBTQIA+ community — which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identified, intersex, and asexual people, as well as others who do not identify as cishet people.

2014 July 5, Anthony Speciyogic, “Burger King Pride Campaign Claims ‘We’re All The Same Inside’”, in Inquisitr:

(informal) A cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual person.


cotton ceiling

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Coined by Canadian activist Drew Deveaux. Modelled on glass ceiling. Underwear is typically made from cotton.

A social barrier to consideration (by cisgender women) of transgender women as viable sexual partners.


menstruality

Voraciousness was connected to menstruality—Aristotle mentions that barren women whose menses collect but do not get expelled are prone to sexual incontinence.

2013, Joan Cadden, Nothing Natural Is Shameful:


oppa

Borrowed from Korean 오빠 (oppa, “elder brother or close elder male friend (of a female)”).

bor

(manhwa, women's speech) An affectionate term of address for an older brother or somewhat older man.


korephile

/ˈkɔːɹɪfaɪl/

/ˈkɔːɹɪfʌɪl/

From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + -φῐ́λης (-phĭ́lēs, “-lover”), coined after korephilia and by analogy with paedophile.

compound

For quotations using this term, see Citations:korephile.

(rare) A woman or older female who is erotically attracted toward young (chiefly pre- and/or peripubescent) girls.

parthenophile

a person attracted to young women, virgins


TERF

Acronym of trans-exclusionary radical feminist. The earliest recorded use is from 2008 by trans-inclusive cisgender radical feminist Viv Smythe.

acronym

Dear “A Lesbian Democrat”
Your TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) agenda and what it represents is no better than the bigoted regressive agenda of the religious right.

2013, Toni Browning-Early, letter to the editor, QNotes, Volume 28, Number 6, 19 July - 1 August 2013, page 4

At the further extreme TERF’s^([sic]) actively promote the message that banning trans women from feminist gathering implies—that trans women are not really women at all.

2013 December, Rachel Eliason, “Wired This Way”, in ACCESSline, volume 27, number 12, page 13:

Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.

2014, Roz Kaveney, "Woman Enough, The Advocate, 16 July 2014

Although some TERFs attend the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, none of my interviewees or other land-women have identified as a TERF, nor have any TERFs, to my knowledge, ever lived on women's land.

2018, Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States:

The point here isn't that some TERFs aren’t XX and some Nazis aren’t “purely” white (an imaginary category); it’s that their bigotry rests on assumptions about biology and genetics which are scientifically lazy, as if you can “see” race and gender in a meaningful yet simplistic and binary way.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A–Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 252:

That Rowling used terms like “gender critical” (the preferred descriptor of TERFs rather than, well, TERF); that she believes laws that enable trans people to use the bathrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity will “open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside,” which she says is the “simple truth” but is not backed up by any evidence whatsoever; and that she paints the movement for trans rights as one that is “doing demonstrable harm” to women and girls and is “offering cover to predators like few before it” is proof enough of what her views are and who she aligns herself with, for all of her protestations that she has trans friends and cares about the safety of trans women.

2020 June 10, Esther Wang, “For the Love of God, Please Make J.K. Rowling Stop”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

(see usage notes) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist; a radical feminist who does not consider trans women to be women, or thinks they should not be included in female spaces or organisations, and who considers trans men to be women; a person whose transphobia is expressed in feminist terms.


up the stump

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Science is up the stump. She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange.

1900, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 7, page 216:

He said old Dr. Blank had been attending to him all day, but was “up the stump” and wanted me to help.

1907, The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 14, page 662:

Just today I gave his history class a few questions to answer and hand in, but when it came time to answering the last two he was up the stump.

2001, Suzanne L. Bunkers, Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(informal) At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.


cisphobia

One could then speak of 'cisphobia' or 'heterophobia', claiming adequate protection for cisgender and straight persons.

2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer, published 2012, →ISBN, page 101:

Piers Morgan has claimed to be the “victim of cisphobia” after several members of the transgender community blasted his ignorance on Twitter.

2014 February 6, Jenn Selby, “Piers Morgan claims he’s a ‘victim of cisphobia’ after transgender community blast his ignorance on Twitter”, in The Independent:

Most of the time this leads to white boys screaming about cisphobia and reverse racism, but that's the post when everyone just ignores them and lets them wallow in their ignorance.

2014, Sydney Valenzuela, "The addictive and intricate qualities of the underdog networking site, Tumblr", Eye of the Tiger (Roseville High School, Roseville, California), Volume 12, Issue 9, 24 February 2014, page 10

Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals.

cisfòbia

fear or hatred of cissexuality or cissgenderism


cisphobic

en-adj

cisphobic (comparative more cisphobic, superlative most cisphobic)

more cisphobic (comparative)
most cisphobic (superlative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cisphobic.

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting cisphobia.


Mx

Coined based on Mr and Ms, with x chosen as a "wildcard" character. First proposed jokingly in print in 1977.

Mx. Mirage. I am a radically queer trannyboi with a big mouth.

2010, Sassafras Lowrey, editor, Kicked Out, page 216:

It has been proposed that in addition to the honorific Mr. for male and Ms. for female, that the honorific Mx. be used for intersexuals […]

2013, Heinz Duthel, Kathoey Ladyboy: Thailand’s Got Talent, Books on Demand, published 2013, →ISBN, page 84:

One of the most well-known gender nonconforming cabaret artists (who now works primarily in full length cabaret shows) is Mx Justin Vivian Bond.

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 559:

“I think the thing that was most surprising was how supportive and gung-ho a lot older alums were,” said Mx. LoSchiavo, who graduated this year (and would have been admitted under the new policy, having identified as a female at the time of application).

2015 June 4, Elizabeth A. Harris, “Barnard College, After Much Discussion, Decides to Accept Transgender Women”, in The New York Times:

In the new Notice, the Court is asking people to state their name, title (sometimes called "salutation"), and pronouns to be used in the proceeding, and for lawyers to provide this information for their clients. For example: "My name is Ms. Jane Lee, spelled L-E-E. I use she/her pronouns. I am the lawyer for Mx. Joe Carter who uses they/them pronouns." ("Mx." is pronounced like the word "mix" and is a gender-neutral title/salutation.)

2020, Provincial Court of British Columbia, "A change in how parties and lawyers should introduce themselves in court," 16 December 2020

(LGBTQ) A gender-neutral title used instead of Mr (Mister), Mrs (Mistress), etc.


femtard

Thus, these femtard bitches, with their belief that women are great and men are useless, and their conviction that women need to given lots of leg-ups and help, will be able to put this into practice and concentrate on hiring women only.

2005, MCP, “Re: Pointless personel ^([sic]) managers”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This Forbes article has been discussed on plenty of anti-feminist websites. It's fantastic, it's really pissed off a load of dim-witted femtards.

2006, Avenger, “Re: Guy talk hits career women where it hurts”, in soc.men (Usenet):


bowwoman

bowwomen (plural)
bowswoman (alternative)

And if we may compare modern with ancient archery the performances of some of our bowmen and bowwomen may be said to fairly rival the historic and partly fabulous exploits of famous mediaeval archers […]

1874, The Gentleman's Magazine (part 2, page 164)


bobby soxer

bobby soxers (plural)
bobby-soxer (alternative)
bobbysoxer (alternative)

From the bobby socks that they wore; bobby sox + -er.

Coordinate term: teenybopper

From my mother I’d learned that “nice” people should always frequent “nice” places, but here was Maria, certifiably nice, who relished the diner, twirled on the metal stool like a bobby-soxer, and punched out tunes on the jukebox.

1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

After having played both Judy Graves and Corliss Archer, Shirley Temple finally cemented her latter-day reputation as Hollywood's ultimate bobby-soxer when she starred in the only film to use the term in its title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

2006, Ilana Nash, American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-century Popular Culture, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 165:

(historical) In the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.


gynandromorphophilia

Coordinate term: androgynemorphophilia

Paraphilic attraction to transgender women ("gynandromorphs").


autoandrophilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autogynephilia

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a female person to be sexually aroused by the thought of becoming a male.


shviger

As soon as she hears the news, Miriam's shviger Fay goes to visit her daughter-in-law in hospital.

2009, David Minkoff, Oy Vey: More!: The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes, Part 2, page 77:

‘Come back to the apartment,’ Elaine giving Horst the usual shviger evil eye, ‘we'll have coffee.’

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 96:


transfan

[…] saying that she did not want to live if I wanted to throw her over for a man, especially a “transfan” type of man.

2008, Rusty Mae Moore, “Satan and Lady Babalon: Polymory Again at 64”, in Tracie O'Keefe, Katrina Fox, editors, Trans People in Love, Routledge, →ISBN, page 154:

"Just make sure he's not a transfan. You know about them, right? Make sure if he's interested, that he's interested in who you are, not what you are."

2013, Linda Vista, Siva's Arrow, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 40:

"I'm...." he pauses, glancing over to Frank, then to me again, "I'm what they call a transgender admirer, or transfan. I'm attracted to transgender people," he concedes.

2015, Amy Daws, London Bound, Star Hollows Publishing, →ISBN:

(informal) One who is attracted to transsexual or transgender people.


salpingotomy

(obstetrics, surgery) The operation of making an incision into a Fallopian tube to remove an ectopic.


scrotoplasty

en-noun

scrotoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural scrotoplasties)

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(surgery) Plastic surgery to construct or repair the scrotum.


generaless

I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless, pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them.

1959, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, Viking:

Bamie—Bamie “the Major Generaless,” as Ellie called her—was sent on in advance to Cambridge that summer to find suitable quarters off campus.

1982, David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, Simon and Schuster, page 161:

If it had pleased her Majesty's Ministers to appoint a lady as next successor to Lord Dufferin, for instance, they could scarcely have given her the rank of Governess General—or Governor Generaless of India.

2005, Amelia Blandford Edwards, lecture, 1889–90, first published as "The Social and Political Position of Woman in Ancient Egypt", PMLA (120) No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 843-857 p. 851

Back then, Annibale spoke of the tenants with deference. He said "Signor Commendatore Pirco." He said "Her Excellency the generaless Puti di Valmescia" (the tenant of the third floor).

2014, Alberto Savinio, "A Head Goes Flying", in Signor Dido: Stories, Richard Pevear (tr.) (Counterpoint Press), p. 26


Aunt Thomasina

Aunt Thomasinas (plural)
Aunt Tomasina (alternative)

A feminization of Uncle Tom. See Thomasina.

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


Wittigian

en-adj

Wittigian (comparative more Wittigian, superlative most Wittigian)

more Wittigian (comparative)
most Wittigian (superlative)

Of or relating to Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles.


trans-erasure

While all minority voices are silenced to varying extents—usually by being denied access to media and economic and political power—there are several aspects of trans-erasure that make it particularly extensive.

2007, Julie Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 189:

Even on the right, trans-erasure in legislation had been happening for a while. The re-purposing of DOMA, or Defense of Marriage Act, first proposed in 1996, specifically denied legislation recognizing the nuance in transsexual marriage, where one partner had their gender reassigned after the couple had wed.

2013, Ely Grinfeld, "Gay marriage fails to make all feel 'gay'", The Current (Eckerd Collage, St. Petersburg, Florida), Volume 4, Issue 11, 19 April 2013, page 9

By not reporting the actual issues related to the trans community, you are actively contributing to trans-erasure.

2014, Tina W., comment published in "Furor Erupts Over Cathy Brennan and Gender Identity Watch", South Florida Gay News, Volume 5, Issue 8, 19 February 2014, page 15

(LGBTQ) The tendency to ignore, deny, or minimize the existence of transgender people or transness.


GCF

Now imagine that, as is the case with many British GCF philosophers, the instructor believes that trans women in women’s prisons pose an unacceptable threat to the safety of inmates in those prisons.

2019 August 6, Shannon Dea, “Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars”, in University Affairs:

A GCF might claim that transwomen should not be included in the category ‘women’.

2019 August 12, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson, Alison Heather, “Transwomen in elite women’s sport – clarifying the nuances of our approach”, in Journal of Medical Ethics:

GCFs talk of my body and flesh and find it to be mutilated.

2019, Saoirse Caitlin O'Shea, “Cutting my dick off”, in Culture and Organization, volume 25, number 4, page 281:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

A gender-critical (trans-exclusionary) feminist; an adherent of gender-critical feminism.


ciscentric

ciscentric (comparative more ciscentric, superlative most ciscentric)

more ciscentric (comparative)
most ciscentric (superlative)
cis-centric (alternative)

Such a universalizing presumption of cissexuality is ciscentric and cissexist because it assumes that the authenticity of femininity is rooted in the female body, that cissexuality is the correct or superior gender identity, and that all 'female' bodies hence yield and are inhabited by female-identified 'women.'

2012, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, "Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive, or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity", Bluestockings, Fall 2012, page 39

I know too much to think any one person responsible for the frightful way these inherently classist, sexist, racist, ciscentric, and appallingly heteronormative systems interact in the world.

2013, Michael Smith, "Religion Exhausts Worldly Tolerance", The Bachelor (Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana), Volume 105, Issue 24, 19 April 2013, page 5

Obviously, this sentiment is ignoring the fact that the other 51 weeks of the year is essentially just a barrage of heteronormativity and ciscentric "pride" being plastered across society.

2014, Jesse Woods, "Pride doesn't mean we dominate society for a week", Arthur (Peterborough & Trent University), Volume 49, Issue 3, 23 September 2014, page 10

(LGBTQ) Centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.


slut-shame

en-verb

slut-shame (third-person singular simple present slut-shames, present participle slut-shaming, simple past and past participle slut-shamed)

slut-shames (present singular third-person)
slut-shaming (participle present)
slut-shamed (participle past)
slut-shamed (past)

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There seems to be no middle ground between embracing one's inner porn star and slut-shaming the women who find themselves pressured or lured into sex-related work because they have few other options.

2013, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Heather Wood Rudúlph, Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success, and Style, Mariner Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 119:

His accuser was publicly reviled—viciously slut-shamed, in some cases—and withdrew from classes.

2014, Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, Melville House, published 2014, →ISBN:

Further, why is it OK for a prepubescent girl to play at sexy, but a teen girl gets slut-shamed for expressing and experimenting with her sexuality?

2014, Melissa Atkins Wardy, Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween, Chicago Review Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 6:

To make a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.


village bicycle

en-noun

village bicycle (plural village bicycles)

Doug Giles (2007) 10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life, →ISBN, page 143: “[...] wholesome people typically won't want to marry the over-used sexual village bicycle that you now have foolishly become.”

Kristen Simmons (2012) Article 5, →ISBN, page 33: “"You got hauled into rehab because your mom's the village bicycle."”

Hilary Bailey (2012) Polly Put the Kettle On, →ISBN: “And she, Polly, had come with the Honourable Julian Powys, old university pal, and Clancy had come with Betty Fawkes, the village bicycle, with her piled-up hairdo, stiletto heels and jammy lips, andy they'd all got drunk”

Fiona Walker (2012) The Love Letter, →ISBN: “She wouldn't say who the father was, but a few discreet enquiries made it pretty obvious that by then she was thought of as little more than the village bicycle.”

(slang, derogatory) A local woman who sleeps with many men.


Surrey girl

I'm not a slut either. I make fun of Surrey girls heheehe it's fun. I live kinda near guildford mall so I walk up there and laugh at them hehehe

1999 April 12, Emily, “Re: AJ WAS ARRESTED”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet):

'Surrey Girl' jokes are the rage in Greater Vancouver. They're all old ("Why do Surrey Girls wear panties? To keep their ankles warm."), but that's the part of GV that those jokes are told about, which says something.

2000 April 28, Robert Slaven, “Re: Vancouver Sights: Repost of "Teddy Takes a Day Trip"”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

Yes, like a drunk Surrey girl he sucks badly almost every night.

2006 January 30, Monster [username], “Re: Weight trade to Carolina”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.vanc-canucks (Usenet):

(British Columbia, derogatory) A stereotype of a young woman from Surrey, British Columbia, characterized as unintelligent and promiscuous.


Aunt Jane

By analogy with Uncle Tom through use of Jane as a similarly general name in popular culture.

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


allosexual

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […]"

1980, Federal supplement, series 1, volume 476, page 1330:

[…] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.

1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in captivity”, in Behaviour, volume 120, number 1/2, pages 40-50:

(chiefly biology, sociology, psychology) Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.


femcunt

femcunts (plural)
femicunt (alternative)

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Femcunts love to say that we men need to fight against rape, and it's true, we do. I'd fight against rape, I wouldn't fight rape alongside feminists, but I'd fight it. But where are the feminists fighting for victims of slander?

2007, MCP [username], “Feminists love to claim that of all rapes reported, only 5% end up in prosecution”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This is an excellent example of female supremacist femcunts using whatever shitty logic they can to gain as many advantages that^([sic]) they can.

2007 October 5, MCP [username], “Equality Means Only Help Girls - Says Feminist Report To EOC”, in soc.men (Usenet):

You femcunts are all alike lol

2008 March 7, Avenger [username], “Re: Boy Age 8 Passes Law School Exam (Hillary and Obama failed lol)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):

“Some bitch,” Political mumbled. “You should know. She's always on the news. Her and Ribit the Horrible. Flapping their lips about something. Never thought I'd say this, but your femcunts are worse'n ours.”

2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.


titty juice

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Daddy's girl

(informal, sometimes derogatory) A girl or woman who has a very close bond with her father.


nonmenstruation

Absence of menstruation; failure to menstruate.