crypto-sexism

noun

Sexism that is unofficial and unobvious.

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Meanings

nouncrypto-sexism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableSexism that is unofficial and unobvious.

    This is in no way a manifestation of crypto-sexism but a simple consequence of the direction of the precession of the equinoxes.

    1988, Stephen E. Franklin, Origins of the Tarot Deck
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    […] Gund has struggled to assert herself as a woman in a family and a professional world dominated by men, and reports preceding her election that she would not be an effective fund-raiser for MOMA struck her as familiar crypto-sexism.

    1991, Vanity Fair, volume 54, page 60

    For fifty years, patriarchy has been telling women to get back to the kitchen, first in genuine outrage, and then with the type of ironic cryptosexism that is supposed to be amusing: get back in there and make us a sandwich, dear.

    2014, Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Origin

From crypto- + sexism.

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