sissyphobia

Definitions

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

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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[…]”

“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 […]”

““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.”

CEFR level