Explaining heterosexual men's attitudes toward women and gay men: The theory of exclusively masculine identity.

By Stephen E. Kilianski. 2003

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Defensive Reactions to Masculinity Threat: More Negative Affect Toward Effeminate (but not Masculine) Gay Men (2007, background): “Similarly, men who endorse stereotypes characterizing gay men as effeminate (e.g., soft, emotional, easily hurt) also exhibit stronger antigay attitudes ( Kilianski 2003 ).”
Effects of masculine identity and gender role stress on aggression in men. (2006, background): “…characteristics associated with a masculine sense of self (i.e., masculine identity), such as authoritarianism and the need for social power, may activate the desire to appear dominant and therefore increase a man's propensity toward enacting harmful, and even violent behavior (Kilianski, 2003).”
Femmephobia: The Role of Anti-Femininity and Gender Policing in LGBTQ+ People’s Experiences of Discrimination (2019, background): “These concepts are propped-up by over 30 years of psychological research documenting how feminine gender transgressions (i.e., deviating from patriarchal norms of femininity) are policed more severely (Grossman et al. 2006; Kilianski 2003”
Stacys, Beckys, and Chads: the construction of femininity and hegemonic masculinity within incel rhetoric (2020, background): “…and regulation of various forms of femininity has been widely considered by scholarship, using terms such as: anti-femininity (Eguchi, 2011; Kilianski, 2003; Miller, 2015), trans-misogyny (Serano, 2007, 2013), effemimania (Serano, 2007), femi-negativity (Bishop et al., 2014), sissyphobia…”
Masculine Self-Presentation and Distancing from Femininity in Gay Men: An Experimental Examination of the Role of Masculinity Threat (2016, unknown): “Indeed, heterosexual men who display excessive concerns with their own masculinity are also more likely to exhibit homophobic attitudes and anger toward gay men (Kilianski, 2003; McCreary, 1994; Parrott, Peterson, Vincent, & Bakeman, 2008).”
What is a True Gamer? The Male Gamer Stereotype and the Marginalization of Women in Video Game Culture (2017, background): “Kilianski (2003) proposes the notion of an " exclusive male identity, " which is fundamentally opposed to both femininity and homosexuality.”
Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes: a meta-analytic review. (2006, unknown): “sions, 2, 33–50 *Kilianski, S. E. (2003). Explaining heterosexual men’s attitudes to-”
The roles of gender role conflict and internalized heterosexism in gay and bisexual men's psychological distress: Testing two mediation models. (2008, background): “Given conceptualizations of sexism and heterosexism as central constructs within traditional masculine gender role ideology ( Kilianski, 2003; O’Neil et al., 1986), it seems likely that sexual minority men’s experiences of gender role conflict can lead to IH or negative feelings and attitudes about”