masculine of center
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by B. Cole in 2008.[1][2] Compare left of center, right of center.
Adjective[edit]
masculine of center (not generally comparable, comparative more masculine of center, superlative most masculine of center)
- (LGBT) Having a gender identity or presentation that is on the masculine side; masc or butch.
- Synonym: masculine-leaning
- Coordinate term: feminine of center
- 2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
- Working-class women, non-white women, some transwomen, and butch/ masculine-of-center women are stereotypically less fragile than the “ideally” feminine woman.
- 2017 Fall, Vanessa Rochelle Lews, "Nourrir Spotlight", in Nourrir, issue 12, page 21:
- […] where there was a plethora of even more well-dressed masculine of center heart throbs and their writings, […]
- 2020 Nov. 19 - Dec. 2, An Pham, "Charlie and the T-House Event Series", in The Guardsman (City College of San Francisco), volume 170, issue 7, page 4:
- The Queer Resource Center announced that they will be hosting an event series for transmasculine and masculine of center communities called the T-House, […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:masculine-of-center.
Alternative forms[edit]
- masculine-of-center
- masculine of centre, masculine-of-centre (British spelling)
- MOC (abbreviation)
References[edit]
- ^ B. Cole, Persistence", in Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (arsenal pulp press, 2011, →ISBN), page 128: "and so in 2008 I introduced the term "masculine of centre" (MoC) as more encompassing and less racially and class-specific than butch."
- ^ Z. Nicolazzo, What’s Transgressive about Trans* Studies in Education Now? (Routledge, 2019, →ISBN): "masculine of centre was coined by B. Cole in 2008"
Further reading[edit]
- Andrea J. Nichols, Tonya Edmond, Erin C. Heil (2018) Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Columbia University Press, →ISBN: “Feminine of Center; Masculine of Center—(adj) a phrase that indicates a range of terms of gender identity and gender presentation for those who present, understand themselves, and relate to others in a more feminine/masculine way.”
- Damon Constantinides, Shannon Sennott, Davis Chandler (2019) Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support, Routledge, →ISBN: “(Masc/MOC). Masculine of center is a term that describes a connection to the more masculine side of the spectrum between femininity and masculinity (Cole, 2011). It is often, but not exclusively, used by people designated female at birth.”