femsymp

plural femsymps

1. derogatoryrareslangA person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.

   A friend of mine says that this is because women have been systematically excluded by a hard core of "good old boys," but that strikes me as knee-jerk femsymp rhetoric, and anyway it doesn't change the facts.

   1991, Keyboard, volume 17, numbers 7-12, page 7

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   Nothing is less persuasive than a tirade from a rigidly orthodox heretic. I'm a sympathizer, a femsymp if you will, but some feminists come on so abrasive they alarm even me. I can only lament the impression they must make on the undecided.

   1974, Jane Howard, A Different Woman, page 380

   […] you few loathsome Lecters and Dahmerites, you libertarians, deer hunters, anchormen, bureaucrats, convicts, bleeding hearts, bikers, femsymps and harassers, Rotarians and punks. Welcome, over-mortgaged yuppie.

   1994, Time, volume 143, numbers 1-9, page 120