grampers

My granny and grampers did it that way. Granny was a nurse, and Grampers started out a roofer; one day he sliced his foot on some metal flashing, and she gave him the tetanus shot. “Been a pain in my you-know-what ever since,” Grampers[…]

2014 March 11, Sylvia Whitman, The Milk of Birds, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 124:

He was my grampers, and I say who pays.' She tilted her head back a fraction. No one would have known that she had come here this morning a traitor and an exile. She had forgotten it herself. In that moment she wasn't even acting;[…]

2016 May 5, Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil, Black Arts, David Fickling Books, →ISBN:

It was a grace of God, allowing each family member time to adjust to the reality that Grampers was no more. During those times, God showed up in a big way, strengthening faith and preparing hearts to bid him farewell.

2022 June 15, Richard Patterson, The Rest of Me, iUniverse, →ISBN:


bridge bunny

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


LGBTQQIAAPP

(uncommon) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/agender, allied, pansexual and polyamorous/polysexual.


costermongeress

costermongeresses (plural)
costermongress (alternative)


great-granduncle

An uncle of one's grandparent (i.e. a brother or brother-in-law of one's great-grandparent)


ogle-in

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

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


bhai

tlb

(India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Hinglish, Benglish)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Transliteration of Hindustani بھائی (bhāī) / भाई (bhāī) and other South Asian languages, ultimately from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ). Doublet of brother, bru, frater, friar, pal, and vai.


en-proverb

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

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

women have great influence on their male partners

estira més un pèl de figa que una maroma de vaixell

tira più un pelo di fica che un carro di buoi

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

un pelo de concha tira más que una yunta de bueyes


inceldom

In between all of the blame shifting and backhanded advice, some incels attempt to discuss a solution to their 'inceldom'.

2017, Ed Pitt, "Sick Sad World", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition 1 (2017), page 29

If all men knew the truth about modern gender roles, incels argue, proper gender roles could be restored and their inceldom would be at end.^([sic])

2018 October 30, Judah Weinerman, “Meet incels, the internet's resident anti-women hate brigades”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 11:

An early study on inceldom, published nearly two decades ago, further suggested that involuntary celibacy is likely a combination of timing and both the sequencing and duration of sexual behavior (or lack thereof), and that there are three types of incels, segmented according to different relationship status (Donnelly, et al., 2001).

2020 April, D. J. Williams, Michael Arntfield, “Extreme Sex-Negativity: An Examination of Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Misattribution of Blame Among 'Incel' Multiple Homicide Offenders”, in Journal of Positive Sexuality, volume 6, number 1, page 35:

The state of being involuntarily celibate.


walking mattress

en-noun

walking mattress (plural walking mattresses)

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

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


womban

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-womban.wav


nipple shield

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nipple shield.wav

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

A defence for the nipple worn by a breastfeeding woman.


opara

Since the opara was the rightful successor to his father, and more or less inherited his father's political and religious functions upon his death, sending him to school, where he became ipso facto a Christian convert, meant that when his ...

1980, Umoja - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 23:

He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.

1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN:

Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.

2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN:

(Nigeria) The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died.


homopatriarchy

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

homopatriarcat

dominance of homosexual males over other LGBTI people.


trans-identified male

trans-identified male (plural trans-identified males)

trans-identified males (plural)
TIM (alternative)

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

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


Bonney's blue

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

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


father-out-law

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

One day, in an argument with his wife, Haydar, he made a terrible mistake. He refused to acknowledge Henock Beamare as his father-in-law. Instead, he referred to him as his father-out-law.

2013, Lucien Nzeyimana, Burning the Last Straw (Fiction), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 174:

In the absence of the father in his role as father-in-law to Malone, the would be son-in-law comes under the direction of another father figure, the scientist Challenger, who rather than a substitute father-in-law can more pertinently be seen as a father-out-law.

2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 57:

With this exit of the normal father, the would-be son-in-law ends up in the hands of a kind of father-out-law;, Challenger whose science will lead the young man to the fantasy space and the king of the ape-men.

2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 117:


sister-out-law

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


mother-out-law

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

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

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


brother-out-law

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

Going home and hanging out with his daughter and brother-in-law, Ex-brother-in-law? Brother-out-law? seemed a whole lot better than whatever was going to happen inside that restaurant.

2018, Eric Baysinger, Brother-out-Law, →ISBN, page 69:


androgen insensitivity syndrome

androgen insensitivity syndrome (uncountable)

(pathology) A condition where an individual is unresponsive to male hormones. For persons with male gonads, this is associated with higher grades on the Quigley scale.

complete androgen insensitivity syndrome


Stiwanism

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

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


nego-feminism

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

A form of African feminism that emphasizes negotiation and compromise.


knife-boy

(historical) A boy employed to clean knives.


Aunt Jemima

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

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

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


cyberbride

A mail-order bride procured via the Internet.


`num`MeToo

→ Chinese: 米兔 (mǐtù)

→ Dutch: MeToo

Alyssa Milano
MeToo movement
Tarana Burke
Twitter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


gender minority

gender minority (countable and uncountable, plural gender minorities)

In addition, the process of coming out as a gender minority may or may not be related to sexual orientation, and the concept may have vastly different meanings and applications in the gender minority (GM) community.

2016, Matthew D. Skinta, Aisling Curtin, Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN:

There are different types of surgeries that may be specific to the surgeon performing the surgery or related to the size of a gender minority person's chest. A double incision procedure with nipple grafts is the most common procedure ...

2017, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, K. Nikki Barefoot, LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 258:

A person who is not a binary cisgender person (i.e. a transgender or non-binary person), or these people collectively. (Also used attributively.)

性別少數群體 /性别少数群体

person who are not binary cisgender person(s)


neopronoun

neopronouns (plural)
neo-pronoun (alternative)

Only—Ashraf didn't know any Italian neopronouns. He'd left Italy when he was barely out himself, and far too upset and raw to mix with other trans people. He'd never met an Italian speaker who used neutral or neopronouns, […]

2018, Matthew J. Metzger, Life Underwater, NineStar Press, LLC, →ISBN:

However, neopronouns also come with a disadvantage: they unavoidably stand out whenever they're used because relatively few people have ever heard these words before.

2018, Lee Airton, Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 103:

NEOPRONOUNS — “New” pronouns, as opposed to the more traditional he/him, she/her, and they/them. In this book I've included several neopronouns in the entry on PRONOUNS, but that list is not exhaustive. […]

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 184:

A pronoun used in place of he, she, or singular they, especially one of the modern coinages used by some non-binary people.

néopronom

pronoun used in place of he, she, or they


zirs

What about just a context of events, like "A___ is rich and has just fallen off zir horse. B____ is poor and is still mounted on zirs.

2003 August 22, R. L., “Experiment (was: A problem example, female written males...(long))”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

(rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to zir, the possessive case of ze.


trancestor

page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a volume called The Queer Bible Commentary, then those seeking such figures will probably engage with it whether or not they consider transsexualism and transgender people to be socially queer phenomena.
page 120: This reclaiming of queer ancestors/trancestors (see below) has proven important for Wilson and others, with its assertion that homosexual people have existed at all points and times in history.

2011, Susannah Cornwall, Controversies in Queer Theology, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, →ISBN:

Fortunately, because I did get a kick out of him, he liked me and would come over and share stories about working with Jackie Curtis, who is a personal hero of mine, and show me pictures of my trancestors in their youthful glory, when their courage, outrageousness, and heavy drug usage paved the way [...]

2014, Amy Scholder, Icon, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN:

Invoke your Trancestors of blood. Speak aloud, something like:
"Oh sweet, well and loving ones of my blood,
You who transcended the bounds of gender during your life,"

2018, Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Mystic Productions Press, →ISBN:

(rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.


doggy dinner bowl look

doggy dinner bowl look (plural doggy dinner bowl looks)

doggy dinner bowl looks (plural)
DDBL (alternative)

Presumably an allusion to the expectant gaze of a dog waiting for its owner to put food in its bowl.

She smiles, laughs, has a doggy-dinner-bowl look.

2004, Tony Click, The Layguide: How To Seduce Women More Beautiful Than You Ever Dreamed Possible, unnumbered page:

She began to give me the doggy dinner-bowl look, as the PUAs call it. It is the look that is the goal of any approach. Her eyes glazed over, her pupils dilated, and she just watched my lips move, entranced and attracted.

2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, page 154:

CJ tries to use a Doggy Dinner Bowl look on me, saying, 'Pete, I can't let her see me like this, she'll think I'm some kind of pervert. You gotta meet her, say I'm sick, really sorry, all that shit.'

2008, Zander Martin, The Players, page 258:

(informal, seduction community) A look of rapt attention, expectation, or excitement, seen as a sign of romantic interest or pleading.


head

old enough to bleed, old enough to breed

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


LDAR

en-verb

LDAR (third-person singular simple present LDARs, present participle LDARing, simple past and past participle LDARed)

LDARs (present singular third-person)
LDARing (participle present)
LDARed (participle past)
LDARed (past)

It is an ideology that breeds despair, and, thus, perhaps the only solution one might find is to LDAR – or, failing that, seek retributionary violence.

2020, Emily Price, "We live in a society: Violence and radicalization in the Internet Manosphere", thesis submitted to Arcadia University, page 18

In “taking the blackpill” incels admit to themselves that “its over”, that no amount of effort will change the way they are perceived, and that they may as well give up and LDAR (lay down and rot).

2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 30

However, even taking the blackpill and accepting this harsh reality, some of them are reluctant to LDAR (“Lay Down and Rot”), choosing instead to do what they can to try to ascend.

2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, "Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans)", thesis submitted to Georgia College, page 104

(incel slang) Initialism of lie down/lay down and rot (“to resign oneself to the hopelessness and unchangeability of one's circumstances, especially as a single, unattractive male”)..


spirit man

en-noun

spirit man (countable and uncountable, plural spirit men)

spirit men (plural)
spirit-man (alternative)
spiritman (alternative)

In a personal reflection on the epidemic, Allen Wright observes, “News of another death now comes with such frequency that my mourning is constant. I imagine the spirits of the departed waiting in line until they can be properly grieved.” Wright's statement implies that New York is populated by “spiritmen” because they have yet to be properly grieved.

Individuals (usually male) who are spiritual in form.


thealogian

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


Xicanx

From Xicano. The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o..

-a-o-x

(neologism) Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).


Xicanx

(neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).


Lady Mayoress

en-noun

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

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

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

2016 "Our Work" Leeds Children's Charity website

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

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

The wife or other official female consort of a Lord Mayor


gender role

gender roles (plural)
gender-role (alternative)

Coined by New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist, and college professor John Money.

coin

A set of expected behaviours and attitudes associated with a specific gender.


family woman

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


ex-servicewoman

Coordinate term: ex-serviceman

A woman who used to be in the armed forces.


motherism

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


subdebutante

Coordinate term: debutante

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

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

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


school dinner lady

en-noun

school dinner lady (plural school dinner ladies)

school dinner ladies (plural)
school-dinner lady (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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


drag artist

(LGBTQ) A person who wears drag, typically for public performance.


TERFy

en-adj

TERFy (comparative TERFier, superlative TERFiest)

TERFier (comparative)
TERFiest (superlative)
TERF-y (alternative)
terfy (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


TERFdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


a woman's work is never done

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


women's

Ellipsis of women's department: an area selling clothing for adult females in a department store.


clockable

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[…] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]

2017, Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:

Many if not most of us strive for “it” but few trans women ever get to 100 percent passability. In my experience, there's usually something about us that makes us clockable on closer inspection. For trans women, this is often our voices.

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:

As Aren Aizura asserts, “being a somebody means visibility: becoming a population, becoming a demographic, becoming (part of) a class, becoming clockable.”

2019, Mia Fletcher, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, page 14:

(transgender slang) Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing.


en-proverb

behind every successful man there stands a woman

/bɪˈhaɪnd ˌɛvɹi səkˈsɛsfl̩ ˈmæn ðɛə ˈstændz ə ˈwʊmən/

/bɪˈhaɪnd ˌɛvɹi səkˈsɛsfl̩ ˈmæn ðɛɚ ˈstændz ə ˈwʊmən/

behind every great man there stands a woman

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

وَرَاءَ كُلِّ رَجُلٍ عَظِيمٍ اِمْرَأَةٌ

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

hər uğurlu kişinin arxasında bir qadın dayanır

每個成功的男人背後都有一個女人 /每个成功的男人背后都有一个女人

měi gè chénggōng de nánrén bèihòu dōu yǒu yīgè nǚrén

jokaisen menestyvän miehen takana on nainen

tout homme qui réussit a une femme derrière lui

detrás dun gran home hai unha gran muller

ყოველი წარმატებული კაცის უკან ქალი დგას

q̇oveli c̣armaṭebuli ḳacis uḳan kali dgas

hinter jedem erfolgreichen Mann steht eine Frau

מאחורי כל גבר מצליח עומדת אישה

meakhoréy kol géver matslíakh omédet ishá

हर सफल पुरुष के पीछे एक महिला होती है

har saphal puruṣ ke pīche ek mahilā hotī hai

di belakang setiap pria sukses ada seorang wanita hebat

すべての成功した男の後ろに女がいる

subete no seikō shita otoko no ushiro ni onna ga iru

aiz katra veiksmīga vīrieša stāv sieviete

už kiekvieno sėkmingo vyro stovi moteris

por trás de todo grande homem existe uma grande mulher

za káždym uspéšnym mužčínoj stoít žénščina

за ка́ждым успе́шным мужчи́ной стои́т же́нщина

detrás de un gran hombre hay una gran mujer

bakom varje framgångsrik man står en kvinna

her başarılı erkeğin arkasında bir kadın vardır

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

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world


behind every great man there stands a woman

behind every successful man there stands a woman#English

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


-cel

A clipping derived from incel. A highly-productive suffix; compare the more offensive -fag, which may have partly inspired it. First attested in c. late 2010s.
Possibly influenced by honorific Japanese suffixes associated with anime and manga culture (as with 4chan suffix above), like -kun, -chan, etc.

curry + -cel → currycel (“an Indian incel”)

rice + -cel → ricecel (“an Asian incel”)

gym + -cel → gymcel (“an incel who works out”)

(incel slang) Denoting a type of incel (often through a stereotype).


captress

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

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

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

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

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


traditional birth attendant

en-noun

traditional birth attendant (plural traditional birth attendants)

traditional birth attendants (plural)
TBA (alternative)

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


leading lady

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


workmistress

workmistresses (plural)
work-mistress (alternative)


gender euphoria

Even though he wasn't out as trans* to anyone yet, he felt a rush of gender euphoria when the waiter called him "sir."

The profound feeling of joy and comfort that some transgender people and others feel when their internal gender identity aligns with their external gender presentation.


metamale

(biology) Synonym of supermale (“male with XYY syndrome”)


TIF

When applied to trans men, perhaps influenced by the name Tiff.

trans-identified female
trans-identified female#English

(derogatory, offensive) Initialism of trans-identified female.


transmedicalism

The belief that medically diagnosed gender dysphoria or medical transition are essential traits of being transgender.


femonationalism

femonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)

femonationalisms (plural)
feminationalism (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


feminationalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


neurogender

Murphy was concerned with the “cross gendered,” those whose “neurogender [gender/sex of the brain] is not the same as the morphological/physical/genital gender.

1997, Nancy Ordover, Science Fictions: National Hygiene, Queer Anatomy, and Eugenic Sterilization, page 167:

Includes “genderqueer/gender non-conforming”, “genderfluid”, “agender”, “nonbinary”, and other (eg, “neurogender”, “bigender”, “androgyne”, “two-spirit”, “questioning”)

2019, Erin A. Vogel, Additive Behaviors, number 95, page 100:

[page 82:] Neurogenders are genders specific to neurodivergent people whose experience of gender relates to their neurotype […]
[page 84:] […] So, back to me and neurogenders.
[page 86:] If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.

2020, Maxfield Sparrow, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN:

A gender type that is linked to neurological factors.


neurogender

en-adj

neurogender (comparative more neurogender, superlative most neurogender)

more neurogender (comparative)
most neurogender (superlative)

If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.

2020, endever corbin, “I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related”, in Maxfield Sparrow, editor, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, page 86:

Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.

2022, Sarah Cavar, Alexandre Baril, “Disability”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities, page 85:

(neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).


demigender

Demigender can be a subset of bigender of multigender, but does not have to be. [...] A demigender person may identify as demifluid or demiflux; this indicates that a part of one's identity remains stable while the other part or parts are fluid.

2016, Stephanie Brill, The Transgender Teen, →ISBN, page 359:

Demigender people often identify as non-binary.

2018, Michael Beattie, Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity, →ISBN, page 267:

Examples of demigender identities include demigirl, demiboy, and demiandrogyne.

2019, Genny Beemyn, Trans People in Higher Education, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 297:

(rare) Identifying partially or mostly with one gender and at the same time with another gender.


demiboy

Polk also identifies as a genderqueer demiboy and uses the pronouns ze/hir (in place of he or she one would use “ze” and in place of him or her one would use “hir”).

2015, Kerri McNair, "A Broader Definition of Gender", InfUSion (University of Georgia), Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2015, page 52

“A member of our family is a Demiboy,” I murmur.

2017, Live Love Laugh Ranting, Come As Yourself: Volume One, →ISBN, page 62:

Jinokimijin had chosen an androgynous male form tonight: not a demiboy, which would typically blend neuter with male, but a femboy, a masculine shape with some feminine elements.

2017, L. Rowyn, The Sun Etherium: An Etherium Novel, #2, →ISBN, page 139:

(neologism) A person who identifies as partially, but not completely, male.


transmedicalist

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transmedicalist.

A person who believes that medically diagnosed gender dysphoria or medical transition are essential traits of being transgender.


transmedicalist

transmedicalist (comparative more transmedicalist, superlative most transmedicalist)

more transmedicalist (comparative)
most transmedicalist (superlative)

Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to transmedicalism.


gender critical

en-noun

gender critical (plural gender criticals)

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

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

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

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

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


whisper network

whisper network (plural whisper networks)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


tradwife

tradwives (plural)
trad wife (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


on the blob

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


like-gendered

en-adj

like-gendered (comparative more like-gendered, superlative most like-gendered)

more like-gendered (comparative)
most like-gendered (superlative)

From like + gender + -ed. Compare like-minded, like-cultured, etc.

Psychobiography as a still-developing field will not benefit from being divided into preserves where certain subjects are studied only by like-gendered or like-cultured or like-minded psychobiographers.

Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.

2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179:


transidentity

From trans- + identity or trans + identity.

[Joanne; male → transgender (i.e.neither male nor female) or genderqueer; 44; preoperative]
Joanne's decision to come out publicly shows that ze transformed from not accepting hir transidentity to embracing and affirming it.

2012, H. Chiang, Transgender China, Springer, →ISBN:

Her transidentity, which bridged the established dichotomy between gender identity and anatomical sex, was the result of her choice to undergo a de-construction/re-construction process of her body: new breasts, hips and thighs, hair loss, beard removal […]

2017, Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano, Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture, page 181:

(rare) Transness; the state of being trans, of having a gender identity which is different from the sex one was assigned at birth (i.e. having a transgender identity).


radical feminist

en-noun

radical feminist (plural radical feminists)

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

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

An adherent or proponent of radical feminism.


radical feminist

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

Pertaining to or supporting radical feminism.


birth sex

birth sex (countable and uncountable, plural birth sexes)

The sex that someone was assigned at birth (or before via prenatal sex discernment), which may differ, as in cases of intersexuality, from their current sex assignment.


single father

A man raising a child on his own without a spouse or partner.


head

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gloria Steinem
Irina Dunn
Nigel Rees
Swarthmore College

沒有男人的女人就像沒有自行車的魚 /没有男人的女人就像没有自行车的鱼

a woman is capable of living a complete and independent life

méiyǒu nánren de nǚrén jiùxiàng méiyǒu zìxíngchē de yú

een vrouw zonder man is als een vis zonder fiets

nainen ilman miestä on kuin kala ilman polkupyörää

une femme sans homme est comme un poisson sans bicyclette

eine Frau ohne Mann ist wie ein Fisch ohne Fahrrad

literal translation if quoting the English phrase

una donna senza un uomo è come un pesce senza bicicletta

남자 없는 여자는 자전거 없는 물고기와 같다

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

en kvinne uten mann er som en fisk uten sykkel

kobieta tak potrzebuje mężczyzny, jak ryba potrzebuje roweru

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

o femeie fără bărbat este ca un pește fără bicicletă

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

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

žena bez muškarca je kao riba bez bicikla

una mujer sin un hombre es como un pez sin bicicleta

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


itty bitty titty committee

the itty bitty titty committee (canonical)
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


gender-critical

en-adj

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

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

[…] in order to understand the nature of gender in society and the domination of men in most forms of social life, one needs to take a gender-critical perspective of both men and women and the interrelations between them (Evans, 1988); and, in order to bring about any enduring gender equity, men and women need, separately and collectively, to reach a gender-critical understanding and make the changes to their lives accordingly.

1995, Terry Evans, “Under Cover of Night: (Re)Gendering Mathematics and Science Education”, in Lesley H. Parker, Léonie J. Rennie, Barry J. Fraser, editors, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 71:

A decade or more later, it is instructive to consider the status of both feminist and gender-critical approaches to the study of religion. As I have argued elsewhere, despite the ubiquity of gendering as a cultural practice, its significance within religion systems, and its foundational role in shaping human possibility and opportunity, gender has not been widely adopted as an essential analytical category by scholars of religion.

2004, Randi R. Warne, “New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America”, in Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne, editors, New Approaches to the Study of Religion, volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 28:

Gender-critical exploration of biblical literature remains a relatively new enterprise. Building on and encompassing the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, biblically focused gender studies seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute “the world of the Bible.”

2014, Julia M. O'Brien, “Preface”, in Julia M. O'Brien, editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

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


Filipinx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).

-a-o-x

(US, neologism) A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).


femvertising

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

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

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

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

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

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

The use of feminist messages to advertise products to women.


velocipedestrienne

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

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

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

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

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

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


PAWG

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


great-grandnephew

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


great-grandniece

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


daughter-out-law

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

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

1998, Ardel Marie Thomas, Victorian Monstrosities:

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


son-out-law

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

“You also treated Haydar like your own son,” Didace observed. “He was my son-out-law, remember,” Henock prompted.

2013, Lucien Nzeyimana, Burning the Last Straw, page 339:


transantagonistic

en-adj

transantagonistic (comparative more transantagonistic, superlative most transantagonistic)

more transantagonistic (comparative)
most transantagonistic (superlative)

The press has often been accused of using offensive phrases and terminology when discussing trans people, including the misuse of pronouns, continuous 'deadnaming' – referring to a trans person's previous name – as well as giving a platform to transantagonistic people.

2014 August 13, “The 'transgender tipping point': how and why attitudes are changing”, in The Week UK:


transantagonism

(rare) Hostility toward transgender people.


cissplain

en-verb

cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained)

cissplains (present singular third-person)
cissplaining (participle present)
cissplained (participle past)
cissplained (past)
cis-splain (alternative)
cisplain (alternative)

Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.

2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.


daming

Jack (Tripp) specialised; daming was what he did.

2013 March 21, Charles Nevin, “Tripp”, in Jack: Stories of Britain’s Favourite Name, Random House, published 2013:

the act of performing as a pantomime dame


transmisandry

From trans- + misandry, modeled on the earlier transmisogyny.

Coordinate term: transmisogyny

A Black trans-of-color critique shows that we need theories not only for thinking about how trans women of color navigate but also for racialized transmisandry, to explain the ways in which Black trans masculine persons live in a sphere of literal and discursive policing […]

2017, E. C. Krell, “Is transmisogyny killing trans women of color? Black trans feminisms and the exigencies of white femininity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly:

Transmisogyny and transmisandry are asymmetrical types of violence. Any claim of transmisandry which is used to vilify trans women and other assigned male at birth trans people should be heavily interrogated if not simply dismissed outright.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 277:

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


trans broken arm syndrome

There’s this thing called 'trans broken arm,' right? You know, where someone might come into the doctor with a broken arm and if you’re cis or not presenting in a way that’s confusing for people, it’s a broken arm, but if you’re presenting as trans. there’s this whole other layer of, ‘Okay, so did you get the broken arm because you’re trans?’ I know that’s kind of a ridiculous statement, but there are layers that go on top of that [identity] that…you have to navigate. (Bailey).

2016, Douglas Knutson, Julie M. Koch, Tori Arthur, T. Andrew Mitchell, and Meredith A. Martyr, "Trans broken arm": Health care stories from transgender people in rural areas, page 31:

Trans Broken Arm Syndrome appears to be most common among mental health service providers, many of whom appear to regard trans people's mental health as relevant only in terms of or in relation to transition.

2018, Ruth Pearce, Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility, page 111:

It would also reduce the incidence of 'trans broken arm syndrome', where doctors attribute every ailment we have to our transition, even completely unrelated things like the flu or a broken limb.

2019, Eris Young, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities, page 217:

Additionally, transgender patients navigate "trans broken arm syndrome" in medical appointments, wherein providers casually misattribute unrelated medical problems to their gender identity or aspects of their transition.

2021, Dagoberto Heredia Jr., Tyson L. Pankey, Cesar A. Gonzalez, “LGBTQ-Affirmative Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care”, in Jessica Lapinski, Kristine Diaz, editors, LGBTQ+Health: An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, unnumbered page:

gender confirmation surgery
gender confirmation surgery

(LGBTQ, informal) The tendency of medical providers to center transness when caring for transgender patients, typically by connecting unrelated medical conditions or symptoms to the transition process, or asking for medical information (e.g. gender confirmation surgery status) that is not relevant to the patient's complaint.


transmasc

Coordinate term: transfem

[They say things like] “I'm attracted to all genders, especially androgynous people,” or, “I am primarily interested in other transmascs.”

2016, Sara Woods, Identifying as Transgender, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 32:

And Literally No One treated me like shit when I identified as transmasc (I s2g, white transmascs seem to act victimized more than they materially are, and that's so much a part of the problem); [...]

2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905:

(LGBTQ, informal) A trans man or other transmasculine person.


anti-pegasister

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


intersexphobic

en-adj

intersexphobic (comparative more intersexphobic, superlative most intersexphobic)

more intersexphobic (comparative)
most intersexphobic (superlative)

There is an urgent need to unpack the sexism underpinning these transphobic and intersexphobic views of sport; […]

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, page 285:

Sometimes participants can say or do things that reflect or highlight their heteronormative, gender[-]normative, or intersexphobic beliefs.

2017, Terence Humphreys, “Down The Rabbit Hole: Learning New Perspectives Around Diverse Genders, Sexes, and Sexualities”, in Jeffrey Lynn Sapp, William DeJean, editors, Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Teacher: Letters of Advice to Help You Find Your Way, IAP, →ISBN, page 191:

Use language that is informed, positive, affirming and supportive when referring to people born with intersex variations, challenging any language that is intersexphobic and accurately educating students about the human body.

2021, Annette Brömdal, “Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations”, in Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, volume 21, number 5:

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting intersexphobia.


sexual marketplace

en-noun

sexual marketplace (plural sexual marketplaces)

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The chart that lists United Nations estimates of the number of persons under 18 working as prostitutes does not distinguish between freelance or professional girlfriends and those in an organized industry, between those who enter the sexual marketplace voluntarily or who are kidnapped, raped and exploited, and between sexually mature persons, adolescents and children.

1996, Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 156, page 6:

The third category envelops all the clients that women service in the sexual marketplace. These encounters are temporary sexual transactions that do not involve more familiarity than necessary.

1999, Amalia L. Cabezas, “Women’s Work Is Never Done: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic”, in Kamala Kempadoo, editor, Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, →ISBN, page 100:

The Internet has become a clearing-house for information about the possibility of male sex work and on how to enter the sexual marketplace should one be interested in doing so.

2011, Michael D. Smith, Christian Grov, In the Company of Men: Inside the Lives of Male Prostitutes, →ISBN, page 45:

(euphemistic) Prostitution; the sex work industry.


trans-friendly

en-adjective

trans-friendly (comparative more trans-friendly, superlative most trans-friendly)

more trans-friendly (comparative)
most trans-friendly (superlative)
transfriendly (alternative)

The trans community is also ravaged by aids; we need aids education and services that are offered in trans-friendly space.

1996, Leslie Feinberg, Transgender warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, page 125:

A true trans-friendly business should have a unisex restroom in addition to the traditional men's and women's rooms meant for those stuffy people who define themselves by their genitalia.

2002, Matt Kailey, Tranifesto: selected columns and other ramblings from a transgendered mind, page 38:

America isn't exactly as trans-friendly as it is gay-friendly.

2009, James E. Beasley School of Law of Temple University, Symposium: intersections of transgender lives and the law, page 453:

There are also social scenes that are traditionally more trans-friendly.

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, page 293:


sprunk

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

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


TERFism

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

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

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

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

TERFism is clearly unpopular with Zillennials.

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

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


child-great

en-adj

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

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

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

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


Mestizx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

-a-o-x

(neologism) Mestizo or Mestiza (and of any gender).


Mestizx

(neologism) A Mestizo or Mestiza (of any gender).


door bitch

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

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

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

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


plural wife

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

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


salt out

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


three-way girl

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

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

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


musclegirl

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From muscle + girl, modeled after muscleman.

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

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

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

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

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

2007, Gena Showalter, Red Handed, page 92:

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


tyrone

Decapitalization of Tyrone.
From the prominence of the male given name "Tyrone" among African-Americans.

(incel slang) A black man who is successful with women and dating.


stacy

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During the rampage by former student Nikolas Cruz at a Florida high school in September 2017, incel communities were desperately rooting for the killer in the same ironic idiom: scorning the 'normies, stacies and chads' and praying the 'HERO' with the gun would also be 'ugly'.

2020, Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, page 133:

When news emerged of Arzaga's murder, I saw incel forum members describe it as “good news” and suggest that “nothing of value was lost,” as they assumed “she may be a stacy since she works in a spa.”

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

(incel slang) Alternative form of Stacy (“attractive woman who is sexually active”)


ladymag

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Coordinate term: lad mag

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


vagenda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


femcel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


femsymp

From feminist sympathizer; modelled on earlier comsymp.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


gender-critical feminism

sex they were assigned at birth
birth sex

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


victim feminism

Coordinate term: power feminism

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

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

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

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

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

2014, Rebecca Stringer, Knowing Victims, page 33:

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


xirself

head

xirself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of xe, feminine herself, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

en-pron

xe (reflexive-of)
herself (feminine)
himself (masculine)
itself (neuter)
themselves (plural)


transfic

en-noun

transfic (countable and uncountable, plural transfics)

transfics (plural)
trans fic (alternative)

Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.

2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 56

In this chapter, I’ve proposed three broad sub-genres to the genderbending genre – trans fics, transformation fics, and cisgender fics – in addition to questioning some of the key assumptions built into the very lexicon that dominates the genre.

2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer In His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, And Fandom's Discontents", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 126

In other words, trans characters in Sherlock transfics tend to portray non-normative but unchanged genders in that the characters continue to be read (and identify) as their canonical gender (or something close to it).

2018, Jonathan A. Rose, “'Sherlock Is Actually A Girl's Name': Challenging Gender Normativity Through Sherlock Fanfiction”, in Genre En Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, number 7, page 116:

(fandom slang, countable) A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans.


brolationship

Blend of bro (“male comrade or friend”) + relationship.

blend

Dudes in a brolationship share more feelings with each other than with their girlfriends.

2013 February 12, Patrick Nguyen, “Bromance, Bro”, in The Lighthouse, University of Alberta, page 5:

This is Jensen, one of Jordan's best friends. They live two houses apart. They both do the same things: they sleep, eat, and cause trouble. And their brolationship has never been broken.

2017, Jensen Abhau, The Chronicles of the Toilet Ghost, unnumbered page:

“I think this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful brolationship.”

2018, Sergio Pereira, The Not-So-Grim Reaper, unnumbered page:

(slang) The camaraderie or bond between male friends.


First Gentleman

en-noun

First Gentleman (plural First Gentlemen)

President Gloria M. Arroyo and First Gentleman Mike Arroyo (left) during a “pamanikan” with the Montealegre family (couple at right) to ask for the hand of their daughter engaged to be married to the President’s son Mikey M. Arroyo (center). […] The day of his arrival, Malacañang announced that henceforth the First Gentleman was going to have his own spokesman.

2002, Isabelo T. Crisostomo, The Power and the Glory: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Her Presidency, →ISBN:

President Macapagal-Arroyo had been amply forewarned. First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo said she “knew that her job as Vice President was to be prepared to take over[…]”

2004, The Macapagal-Arroyo Presidency and Administration: Record and Legacy, 2001-2004 : President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Her Administration, University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN, page 52:

Meredith Nicholson becomes the 44th President of the United States and Milton Stafford becomes the country's "First Gentleman". […] After all what were husbands—”First Gentlemen”—good for if they didn’t go above and beyond for the ones they loved.

2004 November, Kristina Bachman, The First Gentleman, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Fourteen years ago, before the President and First Gentleman were married, they checked into Keene Memorial Hospital and there had a son, this boy, Cooper Jewett.

2005, Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy, →ISBN:

Seven years later, in 2006, Kubrador was released in the wake of another sequence of state crises: the political scandals of 2005 that implicated the First Gentleman of the Philippines, Mike Arroyo, in payoffs from the illegal gambling trade, jueteng. […] The opening intertitles point to jueteng payolas as being linked to both deposed leader Joseph “Erap” Estrada and family members of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whose husband, First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, was also accused of involvement in jueteng.

2011 May 9, Jyostna Kapur, Keith B. Wagner, Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

The husband (or man of similar rank) of a chief executive of a nation; especially the husband of the President of a country.


manspeak

Like all men, John expresses himself in manspeak. In passionately explaining the meaning for his climb, he told me ...it was a real asskicker.

2011, Larry Welch, A Happy Journey: Stories from the Heart, page 49:

Alex reached out and rested his hand over mine. "Let's slow down and see where it goes."
Which was probably manspeak for let's go back to being friends.

2013, Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields, page 244:

He grunted, but as she wasn't fluent in manspeak, she was unsure if he was agreeing with her or in pain.

2014, Lucy Ryder, Resisting Her Rebel Hero, page 22:

(derogatory or humorous) Communication by men viewed as crude, terse, evasive, or emotionally inept.


cisdude

The Pride parade in particular is heavily weighted toward cisdudes.

2015, Christina Cauterucci, “Swallow Your Pride”, in Washington City Paper, 5 June - 11 June 2015, page 14:

I’m a 25-year-old fat, brown, queer cisdude.

2015, "queerandpresentdanger", quoted in Kelsey Schultz, "Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 55

In Brighton, a lot of gigs are billed as ‘queer’, I think because we are known as a queer town or something? But like, you turn up and the bands are all cisdudes.

2017, Michelle, quoted in Megan Sharp, "Women in Punk Creating Queer Identity Spaces: Strategies of Resistance Revisited", thesis submitted the University of Newcastle, page 141


cisguy

cisguys (plural)
cis guy (alternative)
cis-guy (alternative)

"This is not about sex!" I snapped. "I mean, yes, I was interested in being with a cisguy after my surgery, but–"

2014, Katie Rain Hill, Ariel Schrag, Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition, page 235:

The humorous guide, which is full of illustrations (cartoons, photos, diagrams), is written for a young, fashion-conscious FTM audience that seeks to pass among cisguys.

2016, Matthew Heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page:

[…] the most known or visible representation is typically a White cisguy.

2020, Amanda, quoted in Néstor Noyola, Mónica Sánchez, & Esteban V. Cardemil, "Minority stress and coping among sexual diverse Latinxs", Journal of Latinx Psychology, Volume 8, Number 1 (2020)


cisboy

Indeed, the heavy and active involvement of (cis)women soldiers in the torture of prisoners stands in clear contradiction to not only the U.S. military's self-image as the quintessential masculine institution that turns cisboys into cismen, but also seems to falsify feminist scholarship on the foundational role of militarized masculinity in military operations […]

2016, Nadja Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt, “Positionalities, intersectionalities, and transnational feminism in researching women in post-invasion Iraq”, in Annick T. R. Wibben, editor, Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics, page 93:

Of course, cisboys and trans girls may also want and obtain these items (and clearly, many do), but representing them as specifically girls' toys overdetermines their location.

2018, Claudia Schwabe, “Pedagogy”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:

We had a bunch of cis-girls and cis-boys in the unit.

2019, Rudy Akbarian, quoted in Jorge Paniagua, "Devoted To His Country, Dismissed by Trump", The Pride, 8 February - 21 February 2019, page 5


cisgirl

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

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

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

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

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

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


demigirl

Me: male-bodied demigirl with big black headphones and pink bow-headband in front of you on the bus to Ballard.

2015, anonymous, "I Saw U", The Stranger, Volume 24, Number 25, 18 February 2015 - 24 February 2015, page 51

Among the students planning to attend Lavender Graduation is senior Julia Heath, who identifies as an asexual non-binary demigirl.

2018 April 26, Rachel Fechter, “Lavender Graduation Ceremony to offer inclusive space for LGBTQ students”, in The Index, Truman State University, page 7:

Hamlet identifies as a demigirl, although the term is used here by her best friend, Rachel Yorick, […]

2019, Ariane M. Balizet, Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A person who identifies as partially, but not completely, female.


genderscape

During the years of my education and early career, the genderscape of the natural sciences was transformed by a broader inclusion of women.

2000, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species, page xi:

I will now return to an exploration of how such prescriptive responses to gendered behaviours creates a genderscape in the early years classroom which can limit the options for both girls and boys.

2003, Penny Holland, We Don't Play With Guns Here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years, page 24:

Thus, for example, in the 1990s, the mythopoetic strand of the American men's movement drew on ancient myths in order to argue for a natural, pre-ordained gender order, in spite of the fact that these myths derived from a patriarchal, feudal past whose genderscape was no more natural than the present one.

2012, D. Ging, Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema, unnumbered page:

The landscape or variety of gender within a particular context; the attitudes, roles, and beliefs about gender in a culture.


FemShep

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


BroShep

The fact that advertising for Mass Effect 3 included “FemShep” as well as “BroShep” was significant for many fans.

2012, Jillian Scharr, "From 'Epic' to 'Epic Win': Play and performance as open-database storytelling in pre- and postliterate media", paper submitted to Vassar College, page 83

While BroShep displays obliviousness to issues of "reproductive rights and control over the female body," FemShep expresses solidarity with the female Krogan, Eve, indicating there are some galactic power struggles only FemShep can truly understand.

There is little deviation between the FemShep and BroShep scripts for the romance with Liara, which positions Commander Shepard as an experienced soldier (and lover) pursuing the naïve, reticent academic.

2020, Amanda Phillips, Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, page 148:

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


cissupremacist

en-adj

cissupremacist (comparative more cissupremacist, superlative most cissupremacist)

more cissupremacist (comparative)
most cissupremacist (superlative)
cis-supremacist (alternative)

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, page 146:

The concept originated during the cis-supremacist witch hunts which sought to systematically remove trans women from feminist organizations during the 1970s.

2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, unnumbered page:

It's already hard as is for LGBTQIA+ people to navigate the heteronormative and cis-supremacist world we live in.

2015 March/April, King Chan, A Bi* Guy's Way of Queering up Bi* for our Queer World, in getoutlb, page 5

(LGBTQ, neologism) Exhibiting or relating to cissupremacy.


cissupremacy

From cis- + supremacy, by analogy with white supremacy.

To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.

2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, page 129:

Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cissupremacy.

2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10

In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.

2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.

Behavior (individual or systemic) in which cis people are privileged over other people in society (trans people, nonbinary people, genderfluid people).