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Autophobia, also called monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia, is the specific phobia or a morbid fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored.
Pages in category "Homophobic slurs" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adam and Steve; B.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
The number of homophobic tweets -- indicated by uses of hate language like "f**," "d**e" or "lesbo" -- is definitely not as high as the number of sexist tweets, but still higher than anti-black ...
Homophobia – Dislike or prejudice against homosexuality or homosexual people. Interphobia – Dislike or prejudice against intersex people. Lesbiphobia – Dislike or prejudice against lesbians. Panphobia (LGBT) – Dislike or prejudice against pansexuality or pansexual people. Queerphobia – Dislike or prejudice against queerness or queer ...
At first glance, the signs are innocuous, simply directing traffic on the road. But long time queer residents of Silver Lake knew they were a symbol of the neighborhood's darker past.
A transsexual person is born with the physical characteristics of one sex who psychologically and emotionally identifies with a variant or different gender than their physical sex characteristics. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] Stereotypes of trans women include them always being taller and having larger hands than cisgender women. [ 75 ]
The French queer and race theorist Louis-Georges Tin examined discrimination against gay men, and the historical development of the various forms of LGBT-related phobias under the umbrella of homophobia. He writes: There has been an inverse movement of lexical differentiation operating at the heart of the concept of homophobia.