Is ‘Wimp’ the New ‘Sissy’?

An Inside Higher Ed Quick Take:

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has written to Yale University to protest pressure on a student group to change a T-shirt designed to mock Harvard University by quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s analysis that “I think of all Harvard men as sissies.” Concern that forms of “sissy” are insulting to gay people and others led the student group to change plans, although FIRE maintains that university officials strongly encouraged the move, in ways that may have squelched free speech. FIRE maintains that the term “sissy” long ago stopped being strictly an anti-gay slur, and now is just another way to say “wimp.”