femaleist

femaleist
n.
A movement that acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (cf. feminist).
Example Citation:
"The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different — wanna make something of it?"
— Barbara Ehrenreich, "The Real Truth About The Female Body," Time
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