radfem
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Etymology
Shortening of radical feminist.
Noun
radfem (plural radfems)
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist.
- 2003, Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 103:
- In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast
- 2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 91:
- Dr. Brimacombe firmly believed that just because she was a radfem, there was no need to dress in drab. She was frilly and feminine in the peachy-pinky, frou-frou frock and matching heels recommended by her fashion consultant.
- 2018 November 28, Viv Smythe, “I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened”, in The Guardian:
- It was passionate trans women activists online whose strong advocacy of their right to exist as women in the world showed me just how dehumanising the trans-hostile rhetoric is from some radfems about them.
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radfem m or f by sense (plural radfems)
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) a radical feminist