cryptosexist
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- (rare) Covertly sexist; not obviously sexist.
- 1975, Arts Magazine, volume 50, page 9:
- Much work of this kind has been appearing of late, especially made by women, so locked into formerly cryptosexist methodologies and iconographies is this art.
- 1994, Paul Lawrence Farber, The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics[1], page 151:
- His other motives, whether crypto-sexist, racist, vegetarian, or whatever, need not concern us.
- 2014, Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth[2], page 153:
- All things considered, however, most CMV proponents would likely borrow from Warren's critique of the logic of domination: the moral problem with humane farming, it could be argued, is that it relies upon a system of animal husbandry that remains despotic and prone to oppressive backsliding as it perpetuates speciesist hierarchy in a crypto-sexist vein.