• RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️🐧@feddit.dk
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      15 hours ago

      If you smush “female android” together you get “femoid”, and then removing the fe- you shorten it to “moid” for the male version.
      It’s obviously derogatory and it’s meant to mean something akin to “someone with [all looks and] no brain”.
      I’m actually surprised Urban Dictionary doesn’t have a better definition of femoid, but they do of moid.

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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          14 hours ago

          Bimbo/himbo are about types of people with aesthetics and cultural signifiers. Moid/femoid are just slurs against men or women that a person of the opposite gender doesn’t like

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            Yeah himbo doesn’t really have the same bite. A lot of women even like a good himbo. I overall prefer a little intellectualism but I can go for a good himbo too. I’ve mostly heard it associated with Brendan fraisers roles in his youth (George of the jungle / the mummy) It gives golden retriever energy or one of those gym rats that’s always telling the other dudes their muscles look great.

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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        I prefer to not call those people moids. The whole term is toxic and does more to reinforce gender roles than oppose it. It’s not worth using at all.

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          16 hours ago

          Don’t apologize for things outside your control. As a species, we are still trying to outgrow the tribalism, aggression, and desire for dominance that helped our ancestors survive. Stand firm against the sophists who exploit those old instincts rather than encourage us to rise above them.

      • to expand on this, I used the term moid in my original comment because I could see how my entire argument could be oversimplified to “not all men are assholes”, which is something moids say all the time when women complain about men.