Feminists have coined yet another word to express their disgust for men: “hepeated.”
As Bustle explains, “hepeated” is when “a man repeats your ignored idea, and everyone thinks he’s a genius.”
Social advocate and professor Nicole Gugliucci is credited for popularizing the word, after her tweet about it went viral.
My friends coined a word: hepeated. For when a woman suggests an idea and it’s ignored, but then a guy says same thing and everyone loves it
— Nicole Gugliucci (@NoisyAstronomer) September 22, 2017
Gugliucci’s tweet received more than 205,000 likes and over 67,000 retweets, and was entered into Urban Dictionary by another person on the same day it was tweeted. It has even made its way across the pond, with Yahoo News UK and the Irish Examiner talking about it.
“You never know what random thing is going to go viral, she told HuffPost. “I think it’s interesting women and people of color are recognizing these things, and it’s great they have a tool like Twitter to share their stories.”
Interestingly enough, Gugliucci doesn’t personally deal with “hepeating” in her current workplace, but she and her friends are “glad to see their conversation resonating with so many people,” according to HuffPost.
The new word might have just replaced “mansplaining” as the word of choice for feminists. For those who don’t know, “mansplaining” is when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending or patronizing manner. The word first became popularized after Rebecca Solnit published her 2008 essay, “Men Explain Things To Me.”
While “hepeating” and “mansplaining” are quickly becoming household terms, feminist legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw believes that “the power of men to decide what the world is going to look like, what counts and what doesn’t, hasn’t really been terribly disrupted in a generation.”
Perhaps the world needs a few more invented feminist words to really mobilize the masses.
