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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