babyjax13 wrote:EAS Law wrote:nikster wrote:I thought sissy was basically calling someone a woman, Implying weak or feminine. Didn't relize it was a homiphobic term.
It’s not... this is completely made up and an attempt to wield some sort of power on the basis of the fear of offending or coming across as homophobic. New levels reached every day on this board.
This is literally something that can be searched in Google and there is zero reference to homosexuality whatsoever. What’s interesting is that if you’re offended by being inappropriately labeled ___phobic or ___ist, that’s apparently a “too bad” situation, but if someone claims to belong to some protected class and claims to be offended by something considered harmless for all of human history, we change policies, guidelines, demand apologies, censor and ostracize.
I mean, as a gay guy I think I know what words people use in a derogatory way, and as someone who studies gender and race as a vocation, I'm probably more up-to-date on etymology than you are. It was one of the explosion of terms in the late victorian era that referred to 'effeminate men,' and the efforts to classify and 'fix' queer folx.
To make it easier for you, here is literally the first result when I google homophobia + sissy (ymmv, but this should be easy for someone with your ability to do research):“The word sissy was popularized by Teddy Roosevelt as a way to describe young men who did not play tackle football — at a time when deaths on the football field took place with shocking regularity. It was a toxic slur then and it's a toxic slur now.
“Then it was the archetype of what it meant to be a gay man in popular culture: The sissy was someone to laugh at, to mock, and off screen, to brutalize without fear of reprisals. I can understand if fans are not aware of this history, but they should learn it, accept it, and listen to people telling them that it's absolutely out of bounds.”
https://www.outsports.com/2016/10/25/13390712/sissy-gay-slur-men-sports-explained
And, to be clear, the OP was very willing to listen and absolutely did not mean to say something derogatory (and I didn't treat it as such) so I can't help but feel you saying that this is some attempt to ostracize them is anything but politically motivated. Anyway, I hope you put those google skills to work
Your orientation doesn’t change the meaning of a word and frankly your garbage vocation/education doesn’t prove anything other than the laughable way people who take your educational path have to justify their existence with tedious scrutiny of ways to be offended by ordinary things.
While you were “making it easy for me” I think you forgot to cite a source that spoke to homosexual activity in any way other than the feelings and opinions of a questionable source. See my earlier point about the need to justify existence by finding anything and everything offensive and making an argument for the same.
Believe me, I don’t need someone who has convinced themselves that they’re really really bright to educate me on how they find everything offensive.
STRIKE: Personal attack
There's no need to go in on someone like this. Let's see a little civility.
-Sammy
