sissyphobia

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noun

A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounsissyphobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

    I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia[…]

    1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164
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    Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.

    1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions

    Rather than merely producing a simulacrum of past decades, however, this synthetic utopia rewrites the Israeli masculinity and effeminates the cultural national agenda in regard to the politics of effeminacy, sissyness, and sissyphobia […]

    2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)

    “Galileo’s Middle Finger” is many things: a rant, a manifesto, a treasury of evocative new terms (sissyphobia, autogynephilia, phall-o-meter) and an account of the author’s transformation “from an activist going after establishment scientists into an aide-de-camp to scientists who found themselves the target of activists like me” — and back again.

    2015 April 17, David Dobbs, “‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2015

Origin

Translations

Catalan plomafòbia, plomofòbia
  • plomafòbianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
  • plomofòbianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
French efféminophobie
  • efféminophobienegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
Italian effeminofobia
  • effeminofobianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
Portuguese efeminofobia, afeminofobia
  • efeminofobianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
  • afeminofobianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
Spanish plumofobia, plumafobia
  • plumofobianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
  • plumafobianegative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
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