Crypto-sexism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Crypto-sexism is a noun meaning (rare) Sexism that is unofficial and unobvious.
Meaning
(rare) Sexism that is unofficial and unobvious.
Example Sentences
This is in no way a manifestation of crypto-sexism but a simple consequence of the direction of the precession of the equinoxes.
For fifty years, patriarchy has been telling women to get back to the kitchen, first in genuine outrage, and then with the type of ironic cryptosexism that is supposed to be amusing: get back in there and make us a sandwich, dear.
[…] Gund has struggled to assert herself as a woman in a family and a professional world dominated by men, and reports preceding her election that she would not be an effective fund-raiser for MOMA struck her as familiar crypto-sexism.
Related Words
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