Definitions

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  • noun The conscious effort to subvert traditional notions of gender identity and gender roles.
  • verb To subvert traditional notions of gender identity and gender roles.

Etymologies

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gender +‎ fuck. See fuck with ("mess with, tweak").

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Examples

  • I suppose you could call it genderfuck, but that term has come to mean something very different.

    March 9th, 2007 2007

  • Just as well, because at least this way, win or lose, I won't have sold some fellow human beings down the river, simply because I don't understand them, and even feel irrational revulsion at the whole concept of "genderfuck".

    Citizens for (Ir)Responsible Government Zoe Brain 2008

  • What the hell, it's genderfuck, we'll grandfather it in.

    dead stars still burn cvillette 2007

  • I'm generally pleased and surprised that the response has been so overwhelmingly positive, with a few exceptions, and that many people seem to be taking the genderfuck in stride.

    is it just another children's story that's been declawed? ashacat 2007

  • Rather, we wrote the book because we were having fun with the genderfuck and worldbuilding and story, and we wanted to shine some light into a corner of the genre we both had some problems with.

    is it just another children's story that's been declawed? ashacat 2007

  • I'm not sure if it's genderfuck, parody, or what, but it results in my endlessly envisioning Temeraire in skirts and an apron, which makes my eyes cross.

    you can speak double dutch to a real double dutchess matociquala 2007

  • We bring the very “fact” of maleness OR femaleness into question with our genderfuck, our cross-dressing, our sheer nonconformity.

    translation « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

  • Even worse than the Eurotrash choreography, however, were the genderfuck costumes by none other than Satan's representative on Earth according to Manolo the Shoeblogger, click here, Karl Lagerfeld.

    Canadian Alienation, Manhattan Modernism, and Eurotrash sfmike 2008

  • Even worse than the Eurotrash choreography, however, were the genderfuck costumes by none other than Satan's representative on Earth according to Manolo the Shoeblogger, click here, Karl Lagerfeld.

    Archive 2008-04-01 sfmike 2008

  • And that ugly frock was at least a primitive form of genderfuck, which has long been an area of amusement to straight audiences, as well as gay men and lesbians.

    A Funny Time to Be Gay Ed Karvoski Jr. 1997

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