femismo

Definitions

Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.

informal, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All feminists' talk⟳ about a woman's superior ability to identify⟳ and express⟳ their feelings is just that, TALK⟳. It's just more femismo designed to inflate the deflated self-esteems of mean⟳ spirited women.”

“i'm not doing any meds. perhaps it's my femismo that keeps me saying no to meds, perhaps it's that i don't want⟳ to mask other things.”

“Do these women, like⟳ Damon Cross in Wright's The Outsider or Bigger Thomas in Native Son, succeed⟳ in establishing their own⟳ autonomy only through violence, forging a "femismo" or female counterpart to the "machismo" brutality of a Mailer protagonist?”

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