Femaleist

Quick meaning: Femaleist is a noun meaning One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).

Meaning

One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).

Example Sentences

I am a “femaleist.”I think that beer, when at its best, empowers women.

The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?

The ad industry portrayed the role reversal that feminists have coveted for the past twenty years . . . the femaleist party line that women are more "manly" than men could ever hope to be!

Even in her critique of evolutionary psychology — a book heralded by Barbara Ehrenreich as the "chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking" — Natalie Angier expresses just this sort of impatience with perspectives from the usual critics of bioreductivism (feminists, progressives, and perhaps especially social scientists).

Word Forms

• femaleists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include genderist, woman-identified-woman, antisexist, transfeminist, ecowomanist, ecofeminist.

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