This Is Gynarchophobia

Under-Reconstruction

[this-is-gynarchophobia]

Welcome to This Is Gynarchophobia

This is an account platforming experiences with Gynarchophobia.

I will post, reblog, answer, and comment examples of Gynarchophobia when seen.

These experiences can be had anywhere. If not immediately clear, we will explain how

something Is Gynarchophobic.

This also serves as a safe space for GNC women to vent about Gynarchophobia

You may send images, screenshots, videos or instances of Gynarchophobia. This Includes: expressed bigotry, microagressions, misrepresentation, or exclusion of masculine women.

So what is Gynarchophobia?

Gynarchophobia (also kwown as Gynandrophobia) is bigotry against masculine women and GNC women as a whole and their lived experiences. This includes but is not limited to:

The belief a woman cannot be masculine. Stereotyping mascline woman as androgynous, the belief of divine femininity and inate femininity within all women. The lesbophobic belief you have to be lesbian to be masculine as a woman. The belief masculine women face less oppression. Bilittlement of HetGNC women's oppression and experience.

The fear and disgust of female led relationships and role reversal dynamics. A woman's dominance not being respected. A belief masculine women operate on the same gendered experience the same as feminine women.

Erasure of female bisexual masculinity. Fetishization and obiectificationof masculine women by any group.

And much, much more.

[this-is-cuphobia]

Welcome to This Is Cuphobia

This is an account platforming experiences with Cuphobia.

I will post, reblog, answer, and comment on examples of Cuphobia when seen.

These experiences can be had anywhere. If not immediately clear, we will explain how something is Cuphobic.

This also serves as a safe space for GNC men to vent about Cuphobia.

You may send images, screenshots, videos or instances of Cuphobia. This Includes: expressed bigotry, microaggressions, misrepresentation, or exclusion of feminine men.

So what is Cuphobia?

Cuphobia (also known as Gynandrophobia) is bigotry against feminine men and GNC men as a whole and their lived experiences. This includes but is not limited to:

The belief a man cannot be feminine. Targetting of feminine trans men. Stereotyping feminine men as androgynous, the belief of masculinity within all men. The homophobic belief you have to be gay to be feminine as a man. The belief feminine men face less oppression. Bilittlement of HetGNC men's oppression and experience. Derogatorily referring to a man as a ‘Twink’ A belief feminine men operate on the same gendered experience the same as masculine men. Erasure of male bisexual femininity. Fetishization and objectification of feminine men by any group.

And much, much more.

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Gynandrophobia is a woman telling you she's masculine to your face and supressing her. Even if she's wearing a skirt, dressed fem, dressed however. To deny her masculinity is cruel. It should never be what she wears that's priority, but how she feels.

This is Gynarchophobia.

[secretscents]

In this house, femboys and tomboys are slurs and derogatory language.

[failfujo]

Before knowing the history of tomboy I was fine being called it...then I learned it was coined to push young gender conforming white women to become athletic so they could create "healthy white babies" and it was expected they'd eventually fall back into femininity? It never was for actual masculine women...the expectation was always to rape and convert masculine women, or ensure gender conforming women eventually stay in line.

"Why don't you call yourselves tomboys?"

It's term stems to support the Great Replacement Myth.

[shesdiva]

"Why do tomboys always end up feminine" it's by design. They never wanted us to exist. It's always been a ploy to erase black existence.

[shesdiva]

I remember when we looked into this...I keep thinking about it and this shit makes me so fucking angry and sad as a black woman.

[blackmascs]

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

Most of us think fondly, and uncritically, of tomboys: spunky girls who act and dress boyishly, who don’t give a hoot about gender norms. As

Link to the article.

Here are some more excerpts. Absolutely horrifying...

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This is Racism. This is Gynarchophobia.

[crreature]

portraits of butches of color pt 2. via butchisnotadirtyword

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The avoidance of the mere THOUGHT of a woman stronger than a man (shocker: extremely more common than you think if you'd actualy think about it)

This is Gynarchophobia.

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>Bi and Het masc women get excluded

>fight tooth and nail for solidarity

>"Oh you're not welcome here. Use Tomboy"

>Make Virago

> "Oh that? Yeah aren't you butch? Why aren't you using Butch?"

This is Gynarchophobia.

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Naming the mere existence of masculine/dominant women as "patriarchal"

This is Gynarchophobia.

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looking up the term 'masculine women' on youtube to see if anyone is talking about your experiences, relates to you, or is giving advice on how to be more masculine as a woman...

and instead finding loads of videos on how "are you a masculine woman? how to tap into the divine feminine" or "why no one wants a masculine woman" or "how hormone imbalances and toxins make women masculine"

why are rightwingers the only ones who wanna talk about us damn 😂

This is Gynarchophobia.

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Telling another queer about being hetgnc and they mention "straight privilege" completely forgetting Gender Non Conformity fucking negates that.

This is Gynarchophobia.

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When you cut down your hair and people (in particular your female relatives) start claiming that you're uglifying yourself and not seeing your natural beauty... And can't grasp the fact that their ideal is their only

This is Gynarchophobia.

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When being GNC as a cis and/or het woman is deemed as “appropriation” of lesbians or trans men. Or worse yet, as “queerbaiting”.

This is Gynarchophobia.

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Calling any masculine woman "Basically a trans man"

This is Gynarchophobia.

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Calling butches misogynists for being angry about how they're treated. Essentializing them as feminine or "You're a woman too!" when their view of a woman is femininity...or worse, essentialist garbage.

This is Gynarchophobia.

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Not realizing that Masculine women's social issues are UNIQUE and SPECIFIC to them and are not the exact same as feminine women's or trans men's.

This is Gynarchophobia.

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This is more of a vent or some cry for help to seek solidarity, but I feel a sense of sadness when I log off tumblr and interact with the real world and typical cishet expectations and think. oh. This is the norm. Looked at r/AskMen, moreso to see if butches/masc women go there to get experience from men on looking more masc, but what I got instead was several men telling they would rather die than date a masc woman and only see them as bros. I completely understand preferences (physically, I prefer feminine people too!) but it makes me feel sad.

I feel so free using this label, but sometimes I wonder if I'm making a big mistake to masculinize myself. Am I going to become unloveable? Will I get less opportunities, less warmth, less affection from people of all genders? For context, while I am very intramasc, I had a hyperfem phase in hs to fit in - and god, it felt so fucking good to be accepted. Women weren't scared of me and I was asked out a lot.

I would make a very good feminine woman, but it feels very fake to put on that role. Now that I'm acting more like myself, I seem to get less people asking me out, complimenting me, and I feel very isolated. Even my trans friends get a bit confused about my gender non-conformity, and my desire to bind and pack while not strictly being a whole ass man myself. Sometimes I wish someone would force-feminize me as a form of self harm, and I magically enjoy it.

Probably over-exaggerating, but I wonder if I'll worsen my life this way. I just want to be accepted.

This is Gynarchophobia.

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When somebody finds out you enjoy being masculine and spends their time trying to feminize you in the most misogynistic, violent, and sexually harassing way possible. Somebody has straight up sent me borderline assault threats.

This is Gynarchophobia.