Talk:homomisia

Etymology

(See Citations:homomisia for citations.) Daniel Nguyen, "Is “homophobia” outdated? The root of the problem", in The Hofstra Chronicle, February 6/7, 2018, says: "Coined in 2003 by then editor-in-chief of “Psychology Today” Robert Epstein, homomisia replaces the suffix “phobia” with the Greek root “misos” [...]". (The article goes on to use homomisic as a noun: "Additionally, self-proclaimed homomisics have adopted the word to express their hatred of the wicked as an act of righteousness.") The 2003 article referred to is Robert Epstein, "Am I Anti-Gay? You be the judge. A letter form the editor in chief.", Psychology Today, January 1, 2003, and in fact only contains homomisic: "That misnomer [homophobia] suggests that people fear homosexuals; a more appropriate term would be homomisic, from the Greek term misos ("hatred"), since many Americans actually hate gays." - -sche (discuss) 05:32, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

However, as noted in an RFV discussion which will be archived at Talk:-misia, -misia is much older, with iatromisia (Citations:iatromisia) attested since the 1950s. And homomisy (Citations:homomisy) is also older, dating to 1979. - -sche (discuss) 06:17, 25 July 2020 (UTC)