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English
Etymology
From sissy + -phobia.
Noun
sissyphobia (uncountable)
- A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions: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.
1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164: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 […]
- 2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)
- 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
Translations
negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way
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