Citations:testerical
English citations of testerical
- 1972 Winter, Julia Loesch, “Testeria and Penisolence—A Scourge to Humankind”, in Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine[1], volume 4, number 1, →ISSN, page 41:
- Women who are accustomed to feeling helpless and even physically sick can't effectively oppose a tight-lipped testerical male bent on pushing his penisolent way into the world.
- 1985 October 1, Louis Mackay (tr.), Egalia's Daughters: A Satire Of The Sexes, Seal Press, translation of Egalias døtre by Gerd Brantenberg, →ISBN, →OL, page 70:
- As Director for Social Welfare, I've had hundreds of cases like that, where testerical menwim come and say this or that's been done to them, when they've brought it on themselves.
- 1987, Bitch[2], number 18:
- Especially galling are the well-meaning (but underneath testerical) declarations of how Rock music is just too sexist for words and any woman with an ounce of self-respect would rip those Walkperson earphones right off her indignant little head...
- 1988 Winter, Sandra M. Gilbert with Susan Gubar, “The Man on the Dump versus the United Dames of America; Or, What Does Frank Lentricchia Want?”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 14, number 2, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 399:
- The most telling of these, from our perspective, arises when this critic accuses us of buying into a “phallic” economy in the discussion of the nineteenth-century woman writer's desire for “her own autonomy, her own interiority” that we analyzed earlier in terms of Lentricchia’s “testerical” rhetoric.
- 1992, W. J. T. Mitchell, “Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism”, in Transition, number 56, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 17:
- When the neoconservative National Association of Scholars reacts to the emergence of ethnic and women’s studies by declaring that “the barbarians are in our midst,” we recognize the hysterical (or is it “testerical”?) rhetoric of an empire in decline.
- 1993 December 1, Penny A. Weiss, Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics, New York, London: New York University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 152:
- Think how empowring it was when the now self-proclaimed masculists challenged the commonly accepted notion that Jane Stuart Miller only wrote On the Subjection of Men because of the undue and unnatural influence of her overbearing and somewhat testerical husband Harry Taylor Miller.
- 1994, Arthur Flannigan-Saint-Aubin, “The Male Body and Literary Metaphors for Masculinity”, in Harry Brod, Michael Kaufman, editors, Theorizing Masculinities, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 250:
- I postulate and label as testerical the negative potential deriving from the testicle, evidence already in the contest/opposition associations of testes. ... The testerical masculine then is characterized by testiness and all that being testy implies: petulant, fretful, insolent, temperamental, morose, and so forth.
- 1998 December 18, Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction[4], Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 21:
- “Hysterical” thus combines in its connotations the pejorative elements of femininity and of the irrational; there is no analogous word “testerical” to describe, for example, male sports fans’ behavior during the Super Bowl.
- 2006 January 29, elizabeth, “Re: now it's sexist to have rules in schools?”, in alt.support.childfree[5] (Usenet), message-ID <1138577390.981323.154890@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
- As usual, you simply spew your misogynistic illogic before thinking, your testerical reaction as predictable as the swallows returning to Capistrano.
- 2007 November 30, Matthew G. Hannah, “Virility and Violation in the US “War on Terrorism””, in Lise Nelson, Joni Seager, editors, A Companion to Feminist Geography, :
- To Boot's credit, while he views this testerical hot-headedness as quasi-“natural,” even in some cases admirable, he does not claim that it has any intrinsic strategic usefulness to American foreign policy.
- 2009 April 21, George Monbiot, “G20 videos won't change the Met”, in The Guardian[7], →ISSN:
- If the police at the G20 protests were pumped-up, testerical, itching for a fight, it was partly because their commanding officers have spent years blurring the distinction between peaceful campaigners and terrorists.
- 2010 March 31, David Hoffman, “Poll Tax Riots 1990”, in Sousveillance[8]:
- Flattened a couple of times by testerical coppers I was nonetheless motoring well when Grand Buildings was torched by the anarchists, the flames adding to the festive atmosphere.