feminazi

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks superiority of women over men.

Noun

• A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.

Origin

• , popularized in 1992 by politically conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).{{cite-magazine
• |date=1987-12-01
• |title=H.L. Mencken: The Soul Behind the Sass
• |first=Thomas Winslow
• |last=Hazlett
• |magazine=Reason
• |ol=818916200
• |pageurl=https://reason.com/archives/1987/12/01/h-l-mencken/1
• |passage=We could really use him now, what with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill and Jerry Falwell, Gary Hart and Donna Rice, the Moonies, the feminazis, the Naderite crusaders, and the television evangelists.
• {{cite-book
• |year=1992
• |title=The Way Things Ought to Be
• |author=Rush H. Limbaugh, III
• |location=New York
• |publisher=Pocket Books
• |isbn=9780671751456
• |ol=1724938M
• |page=193
• |passage=Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.