femosphere

English

Etymology

From fem +‎ -o- +‎ -sphere, after the pattern of manosphere.

Noun

femosphere (plural femospheres)

  1. (Internet, neologism) The totality of blogs, websites, and communities associated with conservative feminists and femcels.
    • 2024, Jacob Johanssen, Jilly Boyce Kay, “From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies‎[1]:
      As a constituent community of the ‘femosphere’, we argue that Trufemcels mirrored many of the bleak affects and reactionary, fatalistic, ‘pilled’ discourses of the manosphere.
    • 2024, Jilly Boyce Kay, “The reactionary turn in popular feminism”, in Feminist Media Studies‎[2]:
      The femosphere similarly seeks to understand the “hardwired” nature of men—FDS claims that the majority of men are “sex-driven, low effort, and entitled.”
    • 2025, Cécile Smmons, CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It‎[3], unnumbered page:
      Similarily, the femosphere possesses intellectual mouthpieces who cloak reactionary perspectives with an intellectual and scientific façade.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femosphere.

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