TERF bangs
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Originated on social media platform Tumblr circa 2014 from the (possibly jocular) association of women with this hairstyle and trans-exclusionary feminist views.[1]
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- (slang) Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs, especially when paired with a bob on a woman.
- 2017, "How To Dress Like an Art Hoe", Jerk Magazine (Syracuse University), March 2017, page 67 (caption pointing to an image of someone with such bangs):
- TERF bangs: My tumblr post critiquing modern beauty standards got over 100,000 reblogs, but it's so important to uphold these values in day-to-day life, too. I don't even know what TERF stands for!
- 2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019:
- Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.
- 2019, "Assimilation Advice from a fellow SoCoDu", The Piranha (Trinity College, Dublin), September 2019, page 6:
- […] tell your hair stylist at Brown Sugar you need a chin length blunt bob with terf bangs stat.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TERF bangs.
- 2017, "How To Dress Like an Art Hoe", Jerk Magazine (Syracuse University), March 2017, page 67 (caption pointing to an image of someone with such bangs):
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- ^ Amanda Arnold, "A Cultural History of ‘TERF Bangs,’ Beauty’s Most Puzzling Term", The Cut, 7 August 2018