• 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.