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Feminist theory
Feminist theory is a body of scholarship analyzing gender-based oppression, gender inequality, and how gender is shaped in institutions, accompanying the feminist movement from the mid-1970s.
Feminist views on transgender topics
Feminist views on transgender topics cover trans-inclusionary transfeminism, trans-exclusionary gender-critical and radical feminist positions, disputes over sex, gender, and womanhood, and legal flashpoints like the 2025 UK Equality Act ruling.
Femme
Femme: an LGBTQ+ identity term for feminine gender expression, from French femme (Latin femina). Originated in 1940s US lesbian bar culture as the counterpart of butch; now used by lesbians, gay men, and transfeminine people.
Femosphere
Femosphere: term coined by Jilly Boyce Kay (Loughborough University) for online female-centric communities mirroring the manosphere, including femcels, female dating strategists, and pink-pill ideology; also an older US usage and a women's blog name.
Feral child
Feral child (wild child): a child raised with little or no human contact, alone, with animals, or confined. Key cases: Victor of Aveyron, Genie, Kamala, and Amala; severe lasting language and social deficits.
Ferguson unrest
Ferguson unrest: protests and civil disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, after police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on August 9, 2014; catalyst for Black Lives Matter and source of a 2015 DOJ pattern-or-practice report and 2016 consent decree.
Fetishization of LGBTQ people
Fetishization of LGBTQ people: treating sexual or gender identity as a sexual fantasy. Also called queer sexual objectification. Documented in media, dating apps, and history, mostly by cishet men, with negative mental-health impacts.
Fight-or-flight response
Fight-or-flight response, also called the acute stress response, is the sympathetic-adrenal medullary reaction to threat coined by Walter Cannon in 1915, driven by epinephrine and norepinephrine release.
Fijians
Fijians are the people of Fiji: indigenous iTaukei (about 57%), Indo-Fijians (about 37%), and Rotumans. Covers the contested name 'Fijian', the 2010 iTaukei naming law, vanua social structure, 88% native land, and migration.
Filipino Americans
Filipino Americans, the third-largest Asian origin group in the U.S. (about 4.6 million in 2023), trace origins to the Philippines, a former U.S. territory acquired in 1898. Pew data show high English proficiency, $106,400 median household income, and majority Catholic affiliation.
Filipino Canadians
Filipino Canadians, Canadians of Filipino descent, are Canada's fourth-largest racialized group: over 957,000 in the 2021 Census, three-quarters foreign-born, concentrated in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba, with heavy caregiver-stream immigration.
Filipino values
Filipino values: kapwa (shared self), utang na loob (debt of gratitude), hiya, and pakikisama, systematized in Sikolohiyang Pilipino by Virgilio Enriquez, examined through collectivism research and critiques of Tagalog-centric framing.
Filipinos
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) are the people of the Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago nation, numbering about 112.7 million, with some 10 million more living overseas.
Financial domination
Financial domination, or findom, is a consensual BDSM kink in which a submissive (pay pig, finsub) pays tributes to a findomme, with financial surrender itself the erotic power exchange, distinct from financial abuse and studied as online sex work.
Finger pinching conspiracy theory
Finger pinching conspiracy theory: South Korean antifeminist theory from 2021 claiming feminists plant the thumb-index pinch gesture (jibgeson, tied to Megalia) in ads and games to mock men; widely assessed as a hoax that triggered boycotts and corporate self-censorship.
Finger tapping task
The finger tapping task, also called the tapping task or synchronization-continuation task, is a behavioral paradigm measuring motor timing and control by tapping with, then without, a metronome.
Fingering (sexual act)
Fingering: manual stimulation of a partner's clitoris or vagina with fingers or hand. Low-risk, safer sex; skin-to-skin STIs (warts, herpes, scabies) can pass, chlamydia and gonorrhea cannot; pregnancy risk extremely low.
Finnish Americans
Finnish Americans are Americans of Finnish ancestry, from a 1630s Delaware settlement to a migration of roughly 340,000 between 1870 and 1920, concentrated in the Midwest.
Finns
Finns (suomalaiset) are the people of Finland, defined statistically by Finnish background (a parent born in Finland). Key facts: population 5,652,881 (2025), dual east-west genetic origins, Uralic Finnish language, large North American and Swedish diasporas.
First Families of Virginia
First Families of Virginia (FFV): old Tidewater planter gentry of colonial Virginia, dominating Council, Burgesses, and vestries; associated with the 1912 Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5, a by-invitation lineage society for descendants of pre-1625 settlers.
First Nations in Canada
First Nations are the Indigenous peoples of Canada other than Inuit and Métis: 1,048,405 people in the 2021 Census, over 600 nations, rights affirmed under section 35, with treaties, self-government agreements, land title claims, and language revitalization defining their current position.
First same-sex marriage in Spain
First same-sex marriage in Spain: Emilio Menéndez and Carlos Baturín wed 11 July 2005 in Tres Cantos under Ley 13/2005, in force 3 July; Spain was the third country, upheld by STC 198/2012.
First-wave feminism
First-wave feminism: 19th–early 20th-century feminist movement focused on legal inequalities, especially women's suffrage, from Seneca Falls 1848 to the Nineteenth Amendment's 1920 ratification; also called the women's suffrage movement.
Fisting
Fisting is a sexual practice of inserting a whole hand, sometimes to the wrist or forearm, into the vagina or rectum; it can be partnered or autoerotic.
Five Civilized Tribes
The Five Civilized Tribes are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole nations of the southeastern United States, removed to Indian Territory, allotted under the Curtis Act via the Dawes Rolls, with Freedmen citizenship disputes continuing.
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is a 39-item self-report questionnaire measuring five mindfulness facets: observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreactivity, published in 2006.
Five Races Under One Union (五族共和)
Five Races Under One Union (五族共和, wuzu gonghe) was the Republic of China's founding multiethnic doctrine, unifying Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui, and Tibetan peoples, symbolized by the five-striped flag, later abandoned by Sun Yat-sen for assimilationism and by the PRC for its own ethnic classification.
Flag
A flag is cloth displayed from a staff or cord as a standard, ensign, or signal. The article covers its etymology, ancient standards, the Roman vexillum, national flags, vexillology, and design principles.
Flag of Toronto
Flag of Toronto: municipal flag designed 1974 by Rene De Santis, showing City Hall's twin towers as a white T on Pantone 287 blue with a red maple leaf for the Council Chamber; adopted unanimously November 6, 1974, re-adopted 1999 after amalgamation.
Flanker task
The flanker task is a cognitive psychology paradigm in which a participant responds to a central target while ignoring flanking items, measuring attentional selectivity and inhibition.