ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sissyphobia

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sissyphobia is a noun meaning A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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[…]
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.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include femmephobia, femophobia, genderphobia, antifemininity, cisphobia, normalphobia.

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