biofascist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to biofascism.
noun
A proponent or supporter of biofascism.
Example Sentences
- "As such men struggle to forge positive sexual identities, they must confront painful intersections of desire and oppression: white supremacist fantasies of hypersexuality, hyposexuality, or presumed perversity; heterosexist sentiments of disgust; erasures of desire imposed by societal expectations of people with disabilities or the aged; biofascist loathing for transsexual "freaks.""
- "Critical bioethicist Murray (2009) views the conjuncture of contemporary biomedicalization, neoliberalism, and biosocial/biocultural discourses as ultimately biofascist in relentlessly promoting biomedical approaches that seek not only exclude but also to delegitimate alternative approaches to broader ethical considerations."
- "Elaine was the match his parents wanted, after all. Another victory for bourgeois righteousness and biofascist norms."
- "Then, too, there are poor reasons to reject the female metaphor for Earth: a man insisted to me that such identification is “very dangerous,” alluding to the patriarchal fear that women are always just a hairsbreadth away from turning into monstrously powerful biofascists."
- "Specifically, he [Ivan Illich] seemed to be saying that biomedicine is a zero-sum game of sorts, a matter of “biological accountants” or worse, “biofascists”—doctors, drug manufacturers, and hospital managers—inflicting their wills on masses of powerless and innocent victims: us."
- "Now it's possible that while being leery of her, some ounce of my disdain for people who surgically modify themselves to be cool leaked out, but she turned around and called me a biofascist."