femophobia

Noun

femophobia (uncountable)

1. Fear or disavowal of one's own feminine qualities.
   • In truth, my client couldn't afford to pay for their dinner at the fancy restaurant his date had suggested, but in his attempt to overcome his own "femophobia," he ended up paying for them both, feeling put out, and not seeing the guy again.2008, Keith W. Swain, Dynamic Duos
   • In contrast, pro-feminist politics is built on a male alliance with women in addressing misogyny, sexism, homophobia and femophobia, with the additional requirement for men to engage in some reflexivity about their complicity in an oppressive gender order.2008, B. Lingard, W. Martino, M. Mills, Boys and Schooling: Beyond Structural Reform, →ISBN, page 3
2. Fear or avoidance of meaningful relationships with women.
   • Their foremost expressions of love were for young boys and prostitutes (Hunt, 1959:27). There was a transitoriness in the Greek male's relationships with women, one that has been called femophobia (Whitehurst, 1971:3).1980, Robert N. Whitehurst, Gerald V. Booth, The Sexes: Changing Relationships in a Pluralistic Society, page 4
   • Since Freud's 1910 book on Leonardo da Vinci's sexuality, art history has not let up on artists' homosexual proclivities, as if art making was a form of parturition and birth-giving, the artist not just inspired (impregnated) by the studio muse but incorporating her femininity to the degree that...2002, Wayne Andersen, Picasso's Brothel, page 145