heteropessimistic

English

Etymology

From hetero- +‎ pessimistic.

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Adjective

heteropessimistic (comparative more heteropessimistic, superlative most heteropessimistic)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to heteropessimism.
    • 2022, Hunter Hargraves, Uncomfortable Television, page 5:
      For [C.K.] Louie, masturbation’s explicitness (its permanence as a fact of male heterosexuality) as well as its mediation (its dependence on controlling women as objects of desire) advance the heteropessimistic thesis that all male fantasies must compulsively mistreat women.
    • 2024, Finola Laughren, “The unpopular (manosphere) men of popular feminism”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies‎[1], volume 39, number 1, page 68:
      To transcend the severe limitations (indeed, violent transphobia) of dissident feminism, as well as the heteropessimistic despair found in orthodox feminism, feminists must try – however cathartic and in one sense therapeutic it is – to resist the temptation to reinscribe the identity of ‘man’ at the expense of more politically productive feminist analysis.
    • 2024 November 16, Marie Solis, “Men? Maybe Not.”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      But as Ms. Montei suggests, the heteropessimistic spirit of the moment isn’t just about sex or dating.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:heteropessimistic.
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