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supersexist

supersexist

English

Adjective

supersexist (comparative more supersexist, superlative most supersexist)

  1. Of, relating to extreme levels of sexism.
    • 2010, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, The Feminization of Poverty in Rich Nations, page 15:
      Or, as U.S. welfare rights leader Johnnie Tillmon put it, welfare is “like a supersexist marriage. You trade in a man for the man” (1972).
    • 2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:
      This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.
    • 2016, Cheryl Della Pietra, Gonzo Girl: A Novel, page 83:
      Devaney heads back to the bedroom, and I can hear her rummaging through drawers. “I'm cold,” I say. “Plus, can I respectfully add that this is supersexist?”