Meaning of femophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fear or disavowal of one's own feminine qualities.
   uncountable
2. Fear or avoidance of meaningful relationships with women.
   uncountable

Examples

“In truth, my client couldn't afford⟳ to pay⟳ for their dinner at the fancy restaurant his date⟳ had suggested, but in his attempt⟳ to overcome⟳ his own⟳ "femophobia," he ended up paying for them both, feeling put⟳ out, and not seeing the guy again.”

“In contrast, pro-feminist politics is built on a male alliance with women in addressing misogyny, sexism, homophobia and femophobia, with the additional requirement for men to engage⟳ in some reflexivity about their complicity in an oppressive gender order⟳.”

“Such misinterpretation may inadvertently condone homophobia, xenophobia, and/or femophobia by implying that there is a prescribed set⟳ of attitudes, behaviors, emotions, and actions that belong⟳ to normal (ie aggressive) boys.”

“As Stephen Ducat explains, homophobia has its roots in femophobia, or men's fear of their own⟳ femininity.”

“Their foremost expressions of love⟳ were for young boys and prostitutes (Hunt, 1959:27). There was a transitoriness in the Greek male's relationships with women, one that has been called femophobia (Whitehurst, 1971:3).”

“Since Freud's 1910 book on Leonardo da Vinci's sexuality, art history has not let⟳ up on artists' homosexual proclivities, as if art making was a form⟳ of parturition and birth-giving, the artist not just inspired (impregnated) by the studio muse but incorporating her femininity to the degree that every man is feminine but some more so than others. There may never be an end⟳ to Van Gogh's severed ear lobe handed to a prostitute, to Cezanne's femophobia, or to Picasso's venereal infection.”

“We likely find⟳ repulsive such saints as St. Louis of Gonzaga, whose search⟳ for purity was indistinguishable from a pathological femophobia, and Mary Margaret Alacoque, whose spirit of adoration for God became a swooning incompetence; and we likely find⟳ attractive St. Francis, St. Paul, George Fox, and Walt Whitman.”

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