feminazi

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feminazi

Alternative forms edit

femi-Nazi, femme-Nazi

Etymology edit

Blend of feminist +‎ Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˌfɛmɪˈnɑːtsi/, enPR: fĕm'ĭ-nätʹsē

Adjective edit

feminazi (comparative more feminazi, superlative most feminazi)

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks superiority of women over men.

Translations edit

relating to a radical or militant feminist

Armenian: ֆեմինացիստ (feminacʻist)
Catalan: feminazi m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女權納粹／女权纳粹 (nǚquán nàcuì); 女拳 (zh) (nǚquán)
Czech: feminacistka, feminacista
French: féminazi (fr)
Galician: feminazi m or f
German: Feminazi
Greek: φεμιναζισμός (el) (feminazismós)
Hungarian: femináci
Indonesian: feminazi
Japanese: フェミナチ (feminachi)
Javanese: feminazi
Korean: 페미나치 (peminachi)
Latin: feminazi
Persian: فمینازی
Polish: feminazistka, feminazista
Portuguese: feminazi (pt) m or f
Russian: фемина́ци (femináci)
Spanish: feminazi (es)
Swedish: feminazi (sv), feminazist (sv)
Turkish: feminazi (tr)
Walon: femirecsisse

Noun edit

feminazi (plural feminazis)

(derogatory, potentially offensive) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.
Synonyms: fembitch, (often used by anti-feminists) femcunt, (rare) femifascist
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.

Usage notes edit

See the usage notes about Nazi.
Limbaugh defined the term as “a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur”, adding that “[t]here are fewer than twenty-five known Feminazis in the United States”.^[3]^[4] However, in practice he and others use the term in a much wider context.^[5]

Derived terms edit

feminazism

Translations edit

intolerant radical feminist

Catalan: feminazi f or m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 女權塔利班／女权塔利班 (neoi⁵ kyun⁴ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹, literally “feminist Taliban”)

Mandarin: 女權納粹／女权纳粹
Czech: feminacista m, feminacistka f
Finnish: feminatsi (fi), telaketjufeministi
French: féminazi (fr) m, féminazie (fr) f
Galician: feminazi f
German: Feminazi f or m
Greek: φεμιναζί (el) m or f (feminazí)
Hebrew: פֵמִינָאצִית f (feminátsit)
Hungarian: femináci
Ido: feministacho
Indonesian: feminazi
Italian: nazifemminista f or m
Persian: فمینازی
Polish: feminazista m, feminazistka f
Portuguese: feminazista f or m, feminazi (pt) f or m
Russian: феминаци (feminaci)
Spanish: feminazi (es) f or m, (rare) feminazista f or m, (politically correct) hembrista (es) f or m
Swedish: feminazist (sv) c
Turkish: feminazi (tr)

References edit

^ Hazlett, Thomas Winslow (1987 December 1) “H.L. Mencken: The Soul Behind the Sass”, in Reason, →OL: “We could really use him now, what with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill and Jerry Falwell, Gary Hart and Donna Rice, the Moonies, the feminazis, the Naderite crusaders, and the television evangelists.”
^ Rush H. Limbaugh, III (1992) The Way Things Ought to Be, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 193: “Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.”
^ Rush H. Limbaugh, III (1992) “The Limbaugh Lexicon”, in The Way Things Ought to Be, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 296: “Feminazi: Widely misunderstood by most to simply mean “feminist.” Not so, boobala. A Feminazi is a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur. There are fewer than twenty-five known Feminazis in the United States.”
^ Britt Gillette (2005) The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages, Regnery Publishing, page xii
^ Wilson, John K. (2011 March 1) “Bitches, Butt Boys, and Feminazis: Limbaugh’s Sexism and Homophobia”, in The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh’s Assault on Reason, Macmillan, →ISBN, →OL, page 56:
When asked in 1995 about the term “feminazi,” he declared: “It’s the way I look at the feminist movement.” Limbaugh referred to the National Center for Women and Policing and the Feminist Majority Foundation as “feminazis.” So it’s not just twenty-five individuals, but every single feminist organization, its leaders, and millions upon millions of Americans with the same views whom Limbaugh compares to Nazis.