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English
Etymology
From femme + -phobia.
Noun
femmephobia (uncountable)
- Dislike of, or hostility towards, women and/or individuals who present as feminine (femmes).
1999, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, page 35:Femmephobia is perhaps a more fitting description of Adolph's anxieties — he has a fear rather than a hatred of Frenchwomen.
2018, Brynn Tannehill, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask), page 320:It's no secret that transgender women absorb the brunt of hate that comes from femmephobia.
2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 115:Masculine women, butches, and masc who aren't men do not benefit from femmephobia.
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- Dislike of, or hostility towards, stereotypically effeminate gay men, especially within the gay community.
2007, Annie Paul, Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, page 368:Indeed, the existence of what has been labelled homophobia, I argue, may be more correctly analysed as a kind of "femmephobia", where same-sex relationships, particularly those between two men, are viewed as having the power to feminize men.
2013, Aniruddha Dutta, “Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Hijra-Trans Heterosexualities”, in Rohit K. Dasgupta, K. Moti Gokulsing, editors, Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions, page 146:Probably the most visible and overt site of global(izing) patterns of femmephobia are male-male dating and sexual networking websites, ranging from Grindr, an Iphone application for sexual networking used primarily in the U.S., and Planetromeo, a dating site with a large following in India. A range of sample user profiles documented on the site include injunctions like the following: "Only into 101% masculine: Fems dnt fkin mssg me . College athlete (not some pansy sport"; "Looking for studs: no fats, fems or anyone above 30"; "If your only personality is gay, move on"; "Be masculine please! I'm gay don't want a girl!";
2020, Emerson L. R. Barrett, “Sexing the Margins: Homonationalism in Gay Dating Apps”, in D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, Andrea P. Herrera, editors, Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age, page 126:In the sexual minority men's community femmephobia typically appears as an abhorrence to stereotypical "gay" things such as liking musicals, lim wrists, sounding effeminate (i.e. a higher pitched voice or a feminine cadence), dressing in clothing considered to be for women and much more.
Usage notes
- A related concept is gynophobia, the fear of women, but not necessarily dislike or hostile of them.