sissyphobia

sissyphobia

English

Etymology

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 […]

Translations

negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way

Catalan: plomafòbia f, plomofòbia f French: efféminophobie (fr) f Galician: plumofobia f

Italian: effeminofobia f Portuguese: efeminofobia f, afeminofobia f Spanish: plumofobia (es) f, plumafobia (es) f

See also

• homopatriarchy