femsymp

femsymp

English

Etymology

From feminist sympathizer; modelled on earlier comsymp.

Noun

femsymp (plural femsymps)

1. (slang, derogatory, rare) A person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.
   • 1974, Jane Howard, A Different Woman (page 380)

     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.

   • 1991, Keyboard (volume 17, issues 7-12, page 7)

     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.

   • 1994, Time (volume 143, issues 1-9, page 120)

     […] 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.