face-ism

n. the alleged tendency for advertisements and other visual media to represent men by their faces (symbolizing their intellectual nature) but women by their whole bodies (symbolizing their sensual nature). It is thus a form of sexism. —face-ist adj.

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Navane

n. a trade name for thiothixene. See thioxanthene.