sissyphobia en · NOUN
Etymology
From sissy + -phobia.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
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: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: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:
Relateds
homopatriarchy · heteropatriarchy · effeminophobia · liberal homophobia
Translations (9)
fr efféminophobie (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · pt afeminofobia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · es plumofobia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · ca plomafòbia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · es plumafobia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · it effeminofobia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · gl plumofobia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · ca plomofòbia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way) · pt efeminofobia (negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way)