Comments on: “Sissy” Now a Wicked Word

By: mrsizer

mrsizer — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:28:05 +0000

We could always bring back “fop” and “foppish” although they are awfully, well, sissy-sounding.

By: Nissa Annakindt

Nissa Annakindt — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:02:17 +0000

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.

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:34:53 +0000

Quick hits

Stop the ACLU reported you cannot call anyone a sissy anymore. I’ve worn glasses since I was 6. Somehow I never had that opportunity anyway.

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:18:44 +0000

The term is of course derogatory and implies a lack of manliness so I guess you are not now allowed to question anyoneâ€™s manliness.

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”