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English
Etymology
From woman + face, modeled on blackface.
Pronunciation
Noun
womanface (uncountable)
- (anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) Women's clothing worn by men or people assigned male at birth, likened to blackface.
2013 October 24, Sol Stein, Living Room, Untreed Reads, →ISBN:Her teacher, Mrs. Calcagni, who Shirley characterized to her friends as an “Uncle Tom in womanface,” hated girls who, in her view, “tried to be smarter than everybody,” which meant smarter than the boys, too.
2022 February 22, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Tor Nightfire, →ISBN:“Molly's people found, well, I don't know what you'd call it—a hive, let's say, of male prostitutes in womanface. But that's not why I called you here.” She flipped the page and smoothed it down gently. “I want you in Raymond tomorrow […]
2022 October 14, Michelle Uriarau (@womenwillspeak), Twitter:Blackface is racist. White people performing racist stereotypes of black or native peoples does nothing to challenge racism; it elevates it.
Womanface is sexist. Men performing sexist stereotypes of women from any culture does nothing to challenge sexism; it elevates it.
2023 February 10, Elise Avery, quoting Maya Forstater, “Explaining the J.K. Rowling Controversy Surrounding Hogwarts Legacy”, in The Escapist:“I view men dressing as women as a form of ‘womanface,’” wrote Forstater. “I don’t think men who think they are women are oppressed, and I do think they can be laughed at.”
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