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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(slang, derogatory, rare) A person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists..
Nothing is less persuasive than a tirade from a rigidly orthodox heretic. I'm a sympathizer, a femsymp if you will, but some feminists come on so abrasive they alarm even me. I can only lament the impression they must make on the undecided.
A friend of mine says that this is because women have been systematically excluded by a hard core of "good old boys," but that strikes me as knee-jerk femsymp rhetoric, and anyway it doesn't change the facts.
[…] you few loathsome Lecters and Dahmerites, you libertarians, deer hunters, anchormen, bureaucrats, convicts, bleeding hearts, bikers, femsymps and harassers, Rotarians and punks. Welcome, over-mortgaged yuppie.
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Femsymp means (slang, derogatory, rare) A person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists..
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Nothing is less persuasive than a tirade from a rigidly orthodox heretic. I'm a sympathizer, a femsymp if you will, but some feminists come on so abrasive they alarm even me. I can only lament the impression they must make on the undecided.
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