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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Between Hetero-Fatalism and Dark Femininity: Discussions of Relationships, Sex, and Men in the Femosphere
%A Francis, Emilie
%Y Calabrese, Agostina
%Y de Kock, Christine
%Y Nozza, Debora
%Y Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
%Y Talat, Zeerak
%Y Vargas, Francielle
%S Proceedings of the The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
%D 2025
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 979-8-89176-105-6
%F francis-2025-hetero
%X The ‘femosphere’ is a term coined to describe a group of online ideological spaces for women characterised by toxicity, reactionary feminism, and hetero-pessimism. It is often portrayed as a mirror of a similar group of communities for men, called the ‘manosphere’. Although there have been several studies investigating the ideologies and language of the manosphere, the femosphere has been largely overlooked - especially in NLP. This paper presents a study of two communities in the femosphere: Female Dating Strategy and Femcels. It presents an exploration of the language of these communities on topics related to relationships, sex, and men from the perspective of hetero-pessimism using topic modelling and semantic analysis. It reveals dissatisfaction with heterosexual courtship and frustration with the patriarchal society through which members attempt to navigate.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.woah-1.29/
%P 325-341

Markdown (Informal)

[Between Hetero-Fatalism and Dark Femininity: Discussions of Relationships, Sex, and Men in the Femosphere](https://aclanthology.org/2025.woah-1.29/) (Francis, WOAH 2025)

• Between Hetero-Fatalism and Dark Femininity: Discussions of Relationships, Sex, and Men in the Femosphere (Francis, WOAH 2025)

ACL

• Emilie Francis. 2025. Between Hetero-Fatalism and Dark Femininity: Discussions of Relationships, Sex, and Men in the Femosphere. In Proceedings of the The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), pages 325–341, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.