sissyphobia
nounEtymology
From sissy + -phobia.
Definitions
A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
- 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 […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA