sextremism
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- An extreme form of feminist activism.
- 2013, GLOBALIST, “Here is how mature adult women demonstate their political believes-they rub your face into their vaginas.”, in soc.retirement[2] (Usenet):
- The activist group, which says that it is based on "sextremism, atheism and feminism," was apparently trying to protest against patriarchy and the Vatican's pro-life views. According to EuroNews.com, the woman was identified as 20-year-old philosophy student Josephine Witt.
- 2014, Galia Ackerman, Femen:
- Sextremism is the main new form of feminist activism developed by Femen. Sextremism is female sexuality that has risen up against patriarchy by embodying itself in extreme political acts of direct action.
- 2016, Helen Davies, Claire O’Callaghan, Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture:
- According to FEMEN's website, sextremism is a: fundamentally new form of women's feminist actionism. [It] is female sexuality rebelling against patriarchy and embodied in the extremal political direct action events [...] Sextremism is the woman's mockery of vulgar male extremism and its bloody mayhems and a cult of terror.