Citations:fauxminist

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Noun: "(slang, derogatory) an insincere or inauthentic feminist"[edit]

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  • 1992 October 6, Mark Ira Kaufman, “Feminists For Life...Huh?”, in talk.abortion[1] (Usenet):
    This organization exists to take away a freedom that is important to every woman of childbearing age. It is more accurate to call them FAUXminists against Choice!
  • 2008, Susan Maushart, "Lippy pitbulls", The Australian, 15 November 2008:
    "And you call yourself a feminist!" the baby sneers, her contempt as ill-concealed as a teenage boy's designer underpants. "Fauxminist! Fauxminist!" her big sister shrills.
  • 2012, Bianca Pencz, "Beyoncé: feminist or fauxminist?", Vancouver Observer, 25 April 2012 (used in title only)
  • 2013, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett & Holly Baxter, "The big question that the generation raised on porn must answer," New Statesman, 11 March 2013:
    It speaks of wider schisms in society and the feminist community: the "sex-positive" feminists who make porn themselves and the ones who call them "fauxminists" as a result; []
  • 2018, Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay, New York, NY: Plume, →ISBN, page 95:
    (A) FAUXMINISTS
    [] This is a typical fauxminist, or fake feminist, comment. [] But what is really troubling about fauxminists is that their feminism is not only conditional (meaning they're for it unless what is being asked of them threatens their way of thinking and living), but it's also infused with patriarchal toxicity []