FART
See also: fart
English
Etymology
Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.[1][2][3]
Noun
FART (plural FARTs)
- (derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
- 2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter:
- Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.
- 2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter:
- “Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.
- 2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118:
- Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:FART.
- Synonyms: GC, GCF, gendercrit, gendercritter (derogatory), TERF, terven
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References
- Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118
- Sanja Bojanic, Mónica Cano Abadía, & Valentina Moro, "Feminist responses to populist politics", European Journal of English Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, page 127
- Effie Ophelders, "The Transvestite, the Transsexual and the Trans Woman:The Transmisogynist Representation of Transgender Killers in Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Mantis", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 25