Comments on: Is ‘Wimp’ the New ‘Sissy’?

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:36:13 +0000

That's Oppressed, DaGoat. Chronically Oppressed. Perpetual Victims, Incorporated.

By: DaGoat

DaGoat — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:06:35 +0000

dictionary.com:

1. an effeminate boy or man.
2. a timid or cowardly person.
3. a little girl.

Merriam Webster Online:

an effeminate man or boy; also : a timid or cowardly person

thefreedictionary:

1. A boy or man regarded as effeminate.
2. A person regarded as timid or cowardly.
3. Informal Sister.

babylon.com:

adj. effeminate, lacking stereotypically masculine qualities; cowardly, timid
n. effeminate boy or man, male who lacks stereotypically masculine qualities; coward, timid person

Did you guys get together and all buy the "Dictionary for the Chronically Offended"?

By: sortaGOP

sortaGOP — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:38:29 +0000

Jeff Davis, are gays supposed to use ugly words to describe themselves?

By: archangel

archangel — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:09:39 +0000

hi there Jim S:
This is straight out of my dictionary, as Jill noted. It does say, 'chieflly offensive..." etc. Curious differences, these dicitonaries, apparently. Mine is ©2005, opening in Rosetta.

"sissy |?sis?| informal
noun ( pl. -sies)
a person regarded as effeminate or cowardly.
• chiefly offensive an effeminate homosexual.
adjective ( -sier, -siest)
feeble and cowardly.
DERIVATIVES
sissified |?sis??f?d| adjective
sissiness noun
sissyish adjective
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.(in the sense [sister] ): from sis + -y 2 .

Thesaurus
sissy informal
noun
he's a real sissy coward, weakling, milksop, namby-pamby, baby, wimp; informal softie, chicken, milquetoast; mama's boy, pantywaist, twinkie, crybaby, powder puff.
adjective
sissy manners effeminate, effete, unmanly.

By: Jim S.

Jim S. — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:38:38 +0000

Now that's interesting. I read a very similar comment over at the Huffington Post where a commenter has the exact same definition of sissy as you've given, calling it "the Webster's definition of sissy". Then someone actually checked it out and it turns out the "chiefly offensive an effeminate homosexual" statement is not there. That's NOT the definition. Here are the links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/fo...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sissy

By: JeffersonDavis

JeffersonDavis — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:59:40 +0000

Ok....

Why don't homosexuals pick another term instead of stealing the word "GAY",
which USED to mean "happy". Now it means "homosexual.

Maybe then we'll stop with the "sissy" remarks.
(which have nothing to do with being homosexual and everything to do with being a spineless wimp)

By: JeffersonDavis

JeffersonDavis — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:55:49 +0000

No, no, no.....

"Liberal" is the new "sissy".

LOL

By: DaGoat

DaGoat — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:42:36 +0000

FIRE maintains that the term “sissy” long ago stopped being strictly an anti-gay slur, and now is just another way to say “wimp.”

As I read the FIRE quotes this is incorrect – they aren't saying it stopped being an anti-gay slur, they're saying it never was strictly an anti-gay slur. I would agree – as a child it never entered my mind the term sissy meant a homosexual, it was the equivalent of the term “wimp”.

By: jilljones1111

jilljones1111 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:14:49 +0000

sissy |?sis?| informal
noun ( pl. -sies)
a person regarded as effeminate or cowardly.
• chiefly offensive an effeminate homosexual.

That's the definition. And heterosexuals use it to insult each other by insinuating that the person being insulted is homosexual. And we all know how the majority of heteros deal with THAT one.

Question: Why can't heterosexuals come up with A DIFFERENT way to insult each other? Why do you have to demean and degrade your gay children (all 100% heterosexually created) to do so?

Morality indeed, heteros.

Morality. Indeed.