“Sissy” Now a Wicked Word
Posted on January 17, 2007
The Leftist attack-site Media Matters is targeting conservative radio personality Michael Smerconish because he uses the word “sissy” (short for “sister”) to describe various policies he disagrees with. The term is of course derogatory and implies a lack of manliness so I guess you are not now allowed to question anyone’s manliness.
That seems rather strange given the feminist claim that sex-roles are all obsolete anyway. Shouldn’t it be a compliment to be a “sissy” among todays’s androgynous Leftists? Feminists have been proclaiming androgyny as the ideal for many years now. See here.
The attack site gives various addresses that you can use to protest against Smerconish. It might be rather fun if readers here used the same addresses to support him!
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You’re “allowed to question anyone’s manliness”, but it is the epitome of an ad hominem attack, so by doing so Smerconish did nothing more than demonstrate his inability construct a logical argument.
It has nothing to do with gender equality. “Great men talk about ideas, mediocre men talk about events and small-minded men talk about people”
Shouldn’t they also go after Harvey Fierstein, a Gay actor, for writing the children’s book ‘The Sissy Duckling’? As a (conservative, chaste, Catholic) Gay woman I have no problem with people using words like ’sissy’ or ‘queer’— it’s what they say that counts. I don’t know what Michael Smerconish has been saying— but nor do the liberals who go off to protest based on one word.
We could always bring back “fop” and “foppish” although they are awfully, well, sissy-sounding.