FART

See also: fart

English edit

Etymology edit

Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /fɑːt/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /fɑɹt/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Noun edit

FART (plural FARTs)

(derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
Synonyms: GC, GCF, gendercrit, gendercritter (derogatory), TERF, terven
- 2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter‎^[1]:
  Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.
- 2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter‎^[2]:
  “Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.
- 2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility‎^[3], page 118:
  Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:FART.

Translations edit

Translations

French: FART (fr)

References edit

^ Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118
^ Sanja Bojanic, Mónica Cano Abadía, & Valentina Moro, "Feminist responses to populist politics", European Journal of English Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, page 127
^ Effie Ophelders, "The Transvestite, the Transsexual and the Trans Woman: The Transmisogynist Representation of Transgender Killers in Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Mantis", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 25

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