misogynoir
/məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women. This was something I could get behind; a song simply extolling the youthful value of keeping the bass bumping in your vehicle. That was until I read the lyrics and found the choice lyric “three dike bitches, and they all wanna swallow.”"
- "Hip-hop feminist studies continues to tackle black sexual politics by discussing and challenging the persistence and prevalence of hip-hop "misogynoir" (the hatred of black women and girls), respectability politics, and compulsory heterosexuality within the music and the culture at large."
- "Unfortunately, the idealization of white women is most often paired with the condemnation of black women, creating the intersectional problem of misogynoir: the combined racism and sexism black women face."
- "Drawing upon a history in which racism, heteropatriarchy, and inter-racial gender ideology rendered Black women invisible and marginalized, Pough compels Black feminists attempting to reject hip-hop feminism to revisit the historical record of Black women pushing back against Black male sexism and misogynoir in Black political, cultural, and social spaces."
- "[A] Black woman as the arbiter of racialized sexism against a young Black girl is an example of misogynoir."
- "To me, his words seemed a form of “misogynoir” – discrimination prejudice, and violence aimed specifically at women of colour."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/
- British English: /mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/