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"
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.