Effeminacy, the Glossary
Effeminacy or male femininity is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity.[1]
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98 relations: ABC News (United States), Aeschines, Against the Galileans, Against Timarchus, Ambracia, Amores (Lucian), Anatolia, Androgyny, Arno Karlen, Associated Press, Bakla, Belgae, Biologist, Bishōnen, Blend word, Boy, Camp (style), Castro clone, Causative, Cicero, Closeted, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Cosplay, Cross-dressing, David M. Halperin, Dead metaphor, Demosthenes, Discrimination, Drag (entertainment), Edward Sagarin, Enculturation, Ergi, Femininity, Gallic Wars, Gaul, Gay, Gay men, Gay sex roles, Gender bender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender nonconformity, Gender role, Girl, Girly girl, Goatee, Gynomorph, Herbivore men, HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality in ancient Rome, ... Expand index (48 more) »
- Boys
- Gay effeminacy
- Gender identity
ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Aeschines
Aeschines (Greek: Aischínēs Atromḗtou Kothōkídēs; 389314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.
Against the Galileans
Against the Galileans (Κατὰ Γαλιλαίων; Contra Galilaeos), meaning Christians, was a Greek polemical essay written by the Roman emperor Julian, commonly known as Julian the Apostate, during his short reign (361–363).
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Against Timarchus
"Against Timarchus" (Κατὰ Τιμάρχου) was a speech by Aeschines accusing Timarchus of being unfit to involve himself in public life.
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Ambracia
Ambracia (Ἀμβρακία, occasionally Ἀμπρακία, Ampracia) was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.
Amores (Lucian)
The Erōtes (Ἔρωτες; "Loves", or "The two kinds of love"), also known as the Amores or Affairs of the Heart, is a dialogue written in the Roman Empire in Ancient Greek.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Androgyny
Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Effeminacy and Androgyny are gender roles.
Arno Karlen
Arno Chanoch Karlen (May 7, 1937 – May 13, 2010) was an American poet, psychoanalyst, and popular science writer.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Bakla
In the Philippines, a baklâ (Tagalog and Cebuano), bayot (Cebuano) or agî (Hiligaynon) is a person who was assigned male at birth and has adopted a gender expression that is feminine.
Belgae
The Belgae were a large confederation of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel, the west bank of the Rhine, and the northern bank of the river Seine, from at least the third century BC.
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology.
Bishōnen
is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty.
Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Boy
A boy is a young male human. Effeminacy and boy are boys.
Camp (style)
Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of perceived bad taste and ironic value. Effeminacy and Camp (style) are gay effeminacy.
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Castro clone
Castro clone is LGBT slang for a homosexual man who appears in dress and style as an idealized working-class man.
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Causative
In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Closeted
Closeted and in the closet are metaphors for LGBT people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior.
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (italic), also Bellum Gallicum (italic), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative.
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Cosplay
Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.
Cross-dressing
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.
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David M. Halperin
David M. Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture.
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A dead metaphor is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning by extensive, repetitive, and popular usage, or because it refers to an obsolete technology or forgotten custom.
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Demosthenes
Demosthenes (translit;; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens.
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
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Drag (entertainment)
Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes.
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Edward Sagarin
Edward Sagarin (September 18, 1913 – June 10, 1986), also known by his pen name Donald Webster Cory, was an American professor of sociology and criminology at the City University of New York, and a writer.
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Enculturation
Enculturation is the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture and its worldviews.
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Ergi
Ergi (noun) and argr (adjective) are two Old Norse terms of insult, denoting effeminacy or other unmanly behaviour.
Femininity
Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Effeminacy and Femininity are gender roles.
Gallic Wars
The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland).
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Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
Gay men
Gay men are male homosexuals.
Gay sex roles
In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during sexual activity, especially between two men.
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Gender bender
A gender bender is a person who dresses up and presents themselves in a way that defies societal expectations of their gender, especially as the opposite sex.
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Gender expression
Gender expression, or gender presentation, is a person's behavior, mannerisms, and appearance that are socially associated with gender, namely femininity or masculinity. Effeminacy and gender expression are gender identity and gender roles.
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Gender identity
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender.
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Gender nonconformity
Gender nonconformity or gender variance is behavior or gender expression by an individual that does not match masculine or feminine gender norms. Effeminacy and gender nonconformity are gender identity and gender roles.
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Gender role
A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex. Effeminacy and gender role are gender roles.
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Girl
A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent.
Girly girl
Girly girl is a term for a girl or woman who presents herself in a traditionally feminine way.
Goatee
A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on one's chin but not the cheeks.
Gynomorph
Gynomorph is a word used to describe an organism with female physical characteristics.
Herbivore men
Herbivore men or is a term used in Japan to describe young men who become voluntarily celibate and express little interest in getting married or being assertive in pursuing relationships with women.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
Homosexuality in ancient Rome
Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West.
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In sociology, homosociality means same-sex relationships that are not of a romantic or sexual nature, such as friendship, mentorship, or others.
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Ionia
Ionia was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey.
Julia Serano
Julia Michelle Serano (born 1967) is an American writer, musician, spoken-word performer, transgender and bisexual activist, and biologist.
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Julian (emperor)
Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus; Ἰουλιανός; 331 – 26 June 363) was the Caesar of the West from 355 to 360 and Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
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Kkonminam
Kkonminam (kkot/n.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Leather subculture
Leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items.
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The LGBT community (also known as the LGBTQ+ community, LGBTQIA+ community, GLBT community, or queer community) is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals united by a common culture and social movements.
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LGBT stereotypes
LGBT stereotypes are stereotypes about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people based on their sexual orientations, gender identities, or gender expressions.
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Lucian
Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
Malakas
Malakas (μαλάκας) is a commonly used profane Greek slang word, with a variety of different meanings, but literally meaning "man who masturbates".
Man
A man is an adult male human. Effeminacy and man are gender identity.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (English:; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.
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Masculinity
Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys. Effeminacy and Masculinity are gender roles.
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Metrosexual
Metrosexual (a portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual) is a term describing a man living in an urban culture who is especially meticulous and scrupulous about his personal style, grooming and appearance.
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Niang pao
Niang pao (娘炮) is a derogatory Chinese term for men perceived to be effeminate. Effeminacy and Niang pao are gay effeminacy.
Non-binary gender
Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary. Effeminacy and Non-binary gender are gender identity.
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Otokonoko
is a Japanese term for men who have a culturally feminine gender expression.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Plutarch
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
Prejudice
Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership.
Pussy
Pussy is a term used as a noun, an adjective, and—in rare instances—a verb in the English language.
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender.
Queer heterosexuality
Queer heterosexuality is heterosexual practice or identity that is also controversially called queer. Effeminacy and queer heterosexuality are gender identity and gender roles.
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Quintilian
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.
RuPaul
RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer, and writer.
Sailor suit
A sailor suit is a uniform traditionally worn by enlisted seamen in a navy or other governmental sea services.
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Scipio Aemilianus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (185 BC – 129 BC), known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the Numantine War in Spain.
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Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
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Sex–gender distinction
While in ordinary speech, the terms sex and gender are often used interchangeably, in contemporary academic literature, the terms often have distinct meanings, especially when referring to people.
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Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
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Sissy
Sissy (derived from sister), also sissy baby, sissy boy, sissy man, sissy pants, etc., is a pejorative term for a boy or man who does not demonstrate masculine traits, and shows possible signs of fragility. Effeminacy and sissy are gay effeminacy.
Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior
Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior is a book by gay author Tim Bergling,Dylan Vox,, Gaywired.com, December 20, 2007, also appeared in Edge, Boston published in 2001, that investigates why some gay men are more masculine than others and why society finds effeminate men objectionable. Effeminacy and Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior are gay effeminacy.
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The social construction of gender is a theory in the humanities and social sciences about the manifestation of cultural origins, mechanisms, and corollaries of gender perception and expression in the context of interpersonal and group social interaction. Effeminacy and social construction of gender are gender roles.
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Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
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Swish (slang)
Swish is a US English slang term for effeminate behavior and interests (camp), emphasized and sanctioned in gay male communities prior to the Stonewall riots. Effeminacy and Swish (slang) are gay effeminacy.
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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".
Third gender
Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither a man or woman. Effeminacy and Third gender are gender identity.
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Tomboy
Tomboy is a term used for girls or young women with masculine traits.
Trans woman
A trans woman (short for transgender woman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth.
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Transgender
A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
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Two-spirit
Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) is a umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Wikinews
Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that works through collaborative journalism.
Woman
A woman is an adult female human. Effeminacy and woman are gender identity.
Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
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See also
Boys
- Boy
- Boy Scouts of America
- Boy bands
- Boy bishop
- Boy seaman
- Boyfriend
- Boys' toys and games
- Effeminacy
- Head girl and head boy
- Magical boy
- Male
- Putti
- Shotacon
- Shōnen manga
Gay effeminacy
- Camp (style)
- Drag panic
- Drag queen
- Effeminacy
- Gay Army
- Gay male speech
- Men on…
- Niang pao
- Queen (slang)
- Sea queen
- Sissy
- Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior
- Swish (slang)
- Twink (gay slang)
Gender identity
- Bill 2
- Blanchard's transsexualism typology
- Causes of gender incongruence
- Cisgender
- Conversion therapy
- Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb
- Effeminacy
- Femboy
- Gender Identity Organization of Iran
- Gender and Jewish studies
- Gender binary
- Gender dysphoria
- Gender dysphoria in children
- Gender expression
- Gender fluidity
- Gender identities in Thailand
- Gender identity
- Gender in Bugis society
- Gender nonconformity
- Gender schema theory
- Gender survey question
- Indiana HB 1608
- Jack Turban
- List of gender identities
- Man
- Masculine of center
- Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism
- Michtim: Fluffy Adventures
- Non-binary gender
- OutRight Action International
- Postgenderism
- Queer heterosexuality
- Questioning (sexuality and gender)
- Saris (Judaism)
- Sexual differences in Jainism
- Sexual inversion (sexology)
- Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
- Third gender
- Transvestic fetishism
- Woman
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effeminacy
Also known as Effeminacy (classical vice), Effeminancy, Effeminate, Effeminiphobia, Effeminite, Feminine male, Feminine males, Feminine man, Feminine men, Femiphobia, Girly boy, Limp wristed, Limp-wristed, Tom girl, Tomgirl.
, Homosociality, Ionia, Julia Serano, Julian (emperor), Julius Caesar, Kkonminam, Latin, Leather subculture, LGBT community, LGBT stereotypes, Lucian, Malakas, Man, Marcus Aurelius, Masculinity, Metrosexual, Niang pao, Non-binary gender, Otokonoko, Oxford English Dictionary, Plutarch, Prefix, Prejudice, Pussy, Queer, Queer heterosexuality, Quintilian, RuPaul, Sailor suit, Scipio Aemilianus, Seneca the Younger, Sex–gender distinction, Sexual orientation, Sissy, Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior, Social construction of gender, Stonewall riots, Swish (slang), Tambourine, Third gender, Tomboy, Trans woman, Transgender, Two-spirit, Western culture, Wikinews, Woman, Working class.