Citations:femmephobia

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Noun: "dislike of or hostility towards women or individuals who present as feminine (femmes)"

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  • 1995, Lesléa Newman, The Femme Mystique, page 279:
    That is when I discovered the femme equivalent of Butches' Disease. It can be called many things: Internalized Butches' Disease, Femmes' Disease, sexism, or femmephobia.
  • 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.
  • 2015, Stan Goff, Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and Church, page x:
    Some young women I know also use the term femmephobia, a useful notion for understanding the "decoy" aspect of the modern "female warrior" figure.
  • 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.

Noun: "dislike of or hostility towards stereotypically effeminate gay men, especially within the gay community"

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  • 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 Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions (eds. Rohit K. Dasgupta & K. Moti Gokulsing), 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 [sic]. College athlete (not some pansy sport"; "Looking for studs: no fats, fems [sic] 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 Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age (eds. D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, & Andrea P. Herrera), 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.