Androphobia is natural

i.e. fear of males

What follows is almost banal, if it weren’t for significant implications.

Males ARE scary!

Compared to females:

Biologically

• They’re bigger
  • More likely to use violence
    • they’re socialised that violence is acceptable
    • their size/strength indicates that it’s more likely to be useful
• More willing to take risks
• More desperate
  • Unmet sexual need is disproportionate (reflected in Tinder/Grindr/OF demographics)

Social

• Represented as more violent
  • news/statistics etc. highlight men’s violence
    • this reinforces audience sensitivity to the innate scariness (compounding)

This contributes to:

• Homophobia disproportionately experienced by men
  • Lesbians are relatively marginalised; they lack the innate ‘threat’ of males
  • Gay men are the only ones that subject straight men to unwanted and ‘scary’ sexual interest’
    • sexual interest from women may be unwanted, but it’s not scary
• Transphobia disproportionately experienced by non-passing trans-women
• Miscommunication
  • People will make cautious assumptions and take precautions which may be counterproductive
• Taboos around male emotionality
  • Men’s emotions

Heteronormatively: