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English
Etymology
Blend of female + machismo.
Noun
femismo (uncountable)
- (informal, rare) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
1996 October 13, westel , “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet):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.
1998 July 7, Epona , “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic (Usenet):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.
2000, Marilyn Maxwell, Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in American Fiction, University Press of America, published 2000, →ISBN, page 117: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?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femismo.
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Portuguese
Etymology
From fêmea + -ismo. Formed by analogy with machismo.
Noun
femismo m (plural femismos)
- female chauvinism, misandry
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