Tim Bergling popularized the term sissyphobia in Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior, although it was used before. Transgender writer and biologist Julia Serano has coined the similar term effemimania. Feminist Sociologist Rhea Ashley Hoskin suggests that these terms can be understood as relating to a larger construct of femmephobia, or "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone who is perceived to identify, embody, or express femininely and toward people and objects gendered femininely." Since the 2000s, Peter Hennen's cultural analysis of gay masculinities has found effeminacy to be a “historically varying concept deployed primarily as a means of stabilising a given society’s concept of masculinity and controlling the conduct of its men based upon the repudiation of the feminine”. Modern context Femboy (alternatively spelled femboi) is a modern slang term used to refer to an individual, typically but not exclusively a male, who displays traditionally feminine characteristics, such as wearing dresses and skirts. (Fem/Femme instead of Femboy for trans women/non-binary gender individuals). It is a portmanteau of feminine and boy. The term femboy emerged by at least the 1990s and gained traction online, used in both sexual and non-sexual contexts. Recently, femboys have become increasingly visible due to trends such as "Femboy Friday" and "Femboy Hooters". While the term can be used as an insult directed towards people who cross-dress (or misappropriating transgender as the same thing), it is also used as a positive/self-describing term within the LGBT community. See also Androgyny Bakla Bishōnen En femme Ergi Femininity Gender bender Gender variance Genderqueer Gynomorph Herbivore men Kkonminam Metrosexual Non-binary gender Otokonoko Queer Queer heterosexuality Sex and gender distinction Social construction of gender Third gender Transgender Two-spirit Notes References Bibliography On Virtues and Vices, Aristotle, trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992. Vol. #285 The Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle, trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library. Vol. #285 Oxford English Dictionary, 20 vol. It has 75 references in English literature of over 500 years of usage of the word 'effeminate'. Davis, Madeline and Lapovsky Kennedy, Elizabeth (1989). "Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community", Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian Past (1990), Duberman, etc., eds. New York: Meridian, New American Library, Penguin Books. . Winkler, John J. (1990). The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge. Williams, Craig A. (1999). Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies