Meaning of crypto-sexism | Babel Free

Definitions

Sexism that is unofficial and unobvious.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“This is in no way a manifestation of crypto-sexism but a simple consequence of the direction of the precession of the equinoxes.”

“[…] Gund has struggled to assert herself as a woman in a family and a professional world dominated by men, and reports preceding her election that she would not be an effective fund-raiser for MOMA struck her as familiar crypto-sexism.”

“For fifty years, patriarchy has been telling women to get back to the kitchen, first in genuine outrage, and then with the type of ironic cryptosexism that is supposed to be amusing: get back in there and make us a sandwich, dear.”

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