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A bingo card in online feminist discussion is a square (usually 5x5, with the centre square being free space) of catchphrases or ideas signalling typical anti-feminist (or racist, ableist, etc) arguments. Generally speaking, meeting one square on a bingo card is not necessarily a sign of a problem, but meeting several either in one comment or when explaining your position over several comments, is considered a sign of either a concern troll or allies who need more feminism 101 background reading or an occasional privilege check. In theory one would play bingo with them, ie, wait for someone's arguments to match an entire row or column, in practice they act as more of a checklist.

The cards may be derived from the idea of buzzword bingo in geek circles, in which bingo cards are made containing corporate-speak ("synergise", "human resources", "redeploy") and geeks in a meeting wait to see who is first to get bingo on a row or column.

Anti-feminist bingo

Lauredhel has assembled two anti-feminist bingo cards:

Examples of other bingo cards

This is not comprehensive.