sissyphobia

English

Etymology

From sissy +‎ -phobia.

Noun

sissyphobia (uncountable)

  1. A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
    • 1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions:
      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.
    • 1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164:
      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 []
    • 2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)
      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 []
    • 2015 April 17, David Dobbs, “‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 18 April 2015:
      “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.

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