Handmaidens

Word HANDMAIDENS
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Definitions and meanings of "Handmaidens"

What do we mean by handmaidens?

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

A women who aids, assists and supports men who hurt or degrade women and womanhood. Urban Dictionary

A women who serves the patriarchy; i.e. Cool Girl. Handmaidens either defend, support or claim to love pornography, pedophilia, rape, incest, BDSM, surrogacy, egg donation, transgenderism and prostitution etc. They often deflect arguments against feminists with "but but but... women to it tooooooo". Many handmaidens claim to be (liberal) feminists and will attempt to euphemize and appropriate women's subjugation by rebranding it "empowering" or "feminist", such as "feminist porn" or "sex work empowurrs me rawrz". Supporting the trans lobby, the porn industry is a handmaiden's cause. Urban Dictionary

A fertile woman brought into a household where the wife is unable to conceive. She will then help with odd jobs around the house, but will also be subject to sexual relations with the man/husband of the household in order to try and bear them a child. Urban Dictionary

A woman who is perceived by a radical feminist as supporting "the patriarchy" by her actions or opinions, regardless of the woman's actual position. Often used as a 'get out of jail free card', labeling a woman as a handmaiden allows her position to be dismissed without further critical analysis or counteracting any arguments. Urban Dictionary

A subordinate chick who takes all her cues from the hottest girl in her clique. Sometimes a closet lesbian who often says when referencing her queen, "That's my friend!" See also: slave. Urban Dictionary

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The word "handmaidens" in example sentences

For a real emphasis on the supposed "handmaidens" to the rock-and-roll revolution, one has to read the book, Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, published by Alfred A. Knopf. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, and as some poster on Lipstick claimed - we women ITW members are not simply 'handmaidens' to the males at ITW. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"We know about the so-called handmaidens, but what about their blokes? ❋ Lumley, Brian (1986)

"handmaidens" and natural sons, are reminiscent of Biblical story. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)

This is in no way meant to denigrate those aspects of the electronic world that have acted as handmaidens to bettering the human condition, expanding our communication universe, organizing our time and finances, speeding up information exchanges, and widening our choice of movies. ❋ Warren Adler (2012)

Under that system, scientists could then go back to doing science, rather than trying to cash in as handmaidens of the drug industry. ❋ Robert Kuttner (2011)

The so-called oppositional artists are only too willing to act as handmaidens of the powerful. ❋ M_francis (2009)

It's the forces of darkness coalescing around killing off ANY reform of ANY kind, including but not limited to the Chamber of Commerce, the NFIB, Biz Roundtable, various allied industry groups, and of course their handmaidens the Rethugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Christopher Columbus was cruising around the eastern Caribbean in 1493 when he spotted a bunch of islands so pristine he named the lovely dots in the blue-green waters "Las Virgenes," after the 11, 000 virgin handmaidens of the legendary St. Ursula. ❋ Bob Schulman (2011)

The handmaidens are out in [force] today in [support] of their [masters]. ❋ M.Sp (2022)

This [thread] is [full of] [libfem] handmaidens. ❋ Xina (2017)

She's a handmaid, she's got an amazing [tale] to tell. Look at that [handmaiden], she [seems like] she would be able to provide men with a child. ❋ Mrdrand (2018)

I consistently dislike what she writes as it is inevitably pro-patriarchal handmaideny [nincompoopery]. I'm going to suggest she's been drinking the [Handmaiden] Communion Wine. All it is to be a [handmaiden] is to carry out [the whims] of the patriarchy. ❋ Ludlow (2012)

[Paris Hilton's] [racist] [chavtastic] ass has alot of handmaidens. ❋ Turn Around. Look This Way. That's It, Doll... (2005)

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