Overgenderize

Quick meaning: Overgenderize is a verb meaning (rare) To genderize too much; to unnecessarily assign masculine or feminine qualities to.

Meaning

(rare) To genderize too much; to unnecessarily assign masculine or feminine qualities to.

Example Sentences

Overgenderizing is not merely a response .

The new theorists are "overgenderizing," says Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, a sociologist at City University of New York. "Seeing distinctions and stereotyping are so much a part of our culture."

Several trans men and women clients told me they had embarrassed themselves (in retrospect) by overdoing their gender expression, overgenderizing via clothing or behavior. What they thought at the time were “typical” male or female behaviors (these clients later decided) were “too much.” Of course, it is common for adolescents to express themselves this way for a few years.

However, I would not agree with their dismissal of Freudian theory as completely reducing psychology to anatomy, nor, especially, would I concede to their view of the Künstlerroman as merely 'a pattern of spiritual development in male heroes [...] virtually unavailable to the young woman in the nineteenth-century novel'.16 This kind of feminist reading can dangerously 'overgenderize' genres to the explicit disadvantage of women's Künstlerinromane in order to make the feminist.

Word Forms

• overgenderizes
• overgenderizing
• overgenderized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oversexualize, overmedicalize, overhomogenize, overobjectify, overglamorize, overcategorize.

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