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cryptosexist

cryptosexist

English

Alternative forms

  • crypto-sexist

Adjective

cryptosexist (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Unofficially sexist; not obviously sexist.
    • 1975, Arts Magazine, volume 50, page 9:
      Much work of this kind has been appearing of late, especially made by women, so locked into formerly cryptosexist methodologies and iconographies is this art.
    • 1994, Paul Lawrence Farber, The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, page 151:
      His other motives, whether crypto-sexist, racist, vegetarian, or whatever, need not concern us.
    • 2014, Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, page 153:
      All things considered, however, most CMV proponents would likely borrow from Warren's critique of the logic of domination: the moral problem with humane farming, it could be argued, is that it relies upon a system of animal husbandry that remains despotic and prone to oppressive backsliding as it perpetuates speciesist hierarchy in a crypto-sexist vein.