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retrosexism

noun

Etymology

From retro- + sexism.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. formed as sexism — “sex + -ism”
  7. prefixed as retrosexism — “retro + sexism”

Definitions

  1. The modern portrayal of traditional sexism, in film etc.

    • A great deal was made in the press of the supposedly ironic retrosexism of Gene Hunt and the apparent ease with which the show's producers felt able to play with the politics of gender […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retrosexism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA