radfem

plural radfems

1. derogatoryslangsometimesA radical feminist.

   "How come a radfem like you didn't keep your last name after you got married?" Mosko asked.

   1999, Michael Jahn, Dorian Yeager, & Barbara Paul, A New York State of Crime, Worldwide, →ISBN, page 39

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   In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast […]

   2003, Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 103

   Dr. Brimacombe firmly believed that just because she was a radfem, there was no need to dress in drab. She was frilly and feminine in the peachy-pinky, frou-frou frock and matching heels recommended by her fashion consultant.

   2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 91

   It was passionate trans women activists online whose strong advocacy of their right to exist as women in the world showed me just how dehumanising the trans-hostile rhetoric is from some radfems about them.

   2018 November 28, Viv Smythe, “I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened”, in The Guardian