[Ads-l] Sorophobia

[Stanton McCandlish]

That's a new one to me.  I encountered this term in a news story, quoting
something written by a professor.
https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-state-university-forced-professor-195057364.html

I have yet to find a clear definition, just a few rambling gender-studies
papers about "negotiating dialectic spaces" among the "differences between
women".  Etymologically it seems to mean "fear of sisters", if Latin-based,
though someone on twitter joked that it could mean "fear of coffins" if you
go the Greek route.

Google hits for the term are almost all repeats of the same news story.

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