"The most pusillanimous, sissified, utterly useless mark of punctuation ever invented," the grammarian James J. Kilpatrick declared.
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"The most pusillanimous, sissified, utterly useless mark of punctuation ever invented," the grammarian James J. Kilpatrick declared.
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As payback, perhaps, he's been among the loudest critics of the new rules to protect players from concussions, complaining that they've sissified the game.
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But Cheez Whiz persisted—it became, in due course, a shorthand for the conservative narrative that Kerry was too limp-wristed to be president, too sissified to oversee the continuing dismantling of the Middle East.
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" This is less Silicon Valley disruption than classic misogynistic mother-blaming with deep historical roots — since at least the late 19th century, male social scientists and cultural critics have fretted that boys were being "sissified" or "mollycoddled" by the heavily female teaching profession and by domineering mothers, in midcentury called "momism.
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You can see what works about basketball in its present state-of-the-art by reading the high, squeaking criticisms of it that leak and blurt from the previous generation's emeritus windbags; everything that Charles Barkley decries as sissified and limp in modern basketball doubles as a compelling reason to tune in.
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Disney told interviewers that the inspiration to draw Mickey came from a tame mouse at his desk at Laugh-O-gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1928 during a train trip to New York, he showed the drawing to his wife Lillian Marie Bounds and said he was going to call it "Mortimer Mouse". She replied that the name sounded "too sissified" and suggested Mickey Mouse instead.
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Against his will, Alfalfa invites his sissified Cousin Wilbur to join the All 4 One Club. The enterprising Wilbur immediately increases the membership by offering cash compensation (usually a penny or two) for every black eye and busted nose administered by Butch and Woim. When the two tough guys try to muscle in on the club, Wilbur surprises everyone by proving himself to be the best bare-knuckle fighter on the block.
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184 particularly embodied in the character of Pretorius and his relationship with Henry. Gay film historian Vito Russo, in considering Pretorius, stops short of identifying the character as gay, instead referring to him as "sissified",Russo, p. 50 "sissy" itself being Hollywood code for "homosexual". Pretorius serves as a "gay Mephistopheles", a figure of seduction and temptation, going so far as to pull Frankenstein away from his bride on their wedding night to engage in the unnatural act of creating non-procreative life.
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Good students were taunted as sissies and clothing styles associated with higher social classes were demeaned as sissified. Among members of a Detroit youth gang in 1938-39, sissy was "the ultimate slur" used to tease and taunt other boys, as a rationalization for violence against rivals, and as an excuse for not observing the dictums of middle-class decorum and morality. By the late 1980s, some men began to reclaim the term sissy for themselves.Pronger, B. (1990), The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex, New York, St Martin's Press.
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Despite being labeled as "forced" feminization, as the role-played scenario may involve that the submissive partner supposedly is feminized against their will, it is a fantasy that is agreed upon by its participants. Whereas not all participants are interested in BDSM aspects of the practice, and only enjoy dressing up, it may also include things such as spanking, pegging, bondage, and humiliation such as making fun of the submissive for having a small and soft penis, and referring to it as a clitoris. The feminized partner is sometimes called a "sissy", and may be said to have been "sissified".
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Dr. Pretorius is frequently identified as homosexual, or as near to homosexual as could be presented on- screen in 1935. (There is, of course, no direct reference to homosexuality in the film.) Bride of Frankenstein director James Whale was openly gay and frequently included camp elements in his films. He directed Thesiger (himself identified in some sources as more or less openly gay) to play the part as an "over the top caricature of a bitchy and aging homosexual". Gay film historian Vito Russo stops short of identifying Pretorius as gay, calling him instead "sissified" ("sissy" itself being Hollywood code for "homosexual").
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According to a HuffPost feature where sex workers were interviewed, including dominatrixes and escorts, forced feminization is one of the most common sexual fantasies among sex workers' clients: one dominatrix said that a vast majority of her clients want to be sissified. In Danielle J. Lindemann's Dominatrix, about a third of a sample of 305 sex worker clients were interested in being made to cross-dress. The fantasy is to a large degree practiced by heterosexual, cisgender men as the submissive partners, although Vice noted that there were also bisexual and pansexual men present at a feminization meet-up they reported on, as well as some genderfluid and transgender people. In slut training scenarios, the submissive partner is most commonly a woman.
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The aggressive sense of English "fuck" and "screw" was not strongly attached to futuō in Latin. Instead, these aggressive connotations attached themselves to pēdīcāre "to sodomise" and irrumāre "to force fellatio" respectively, which were used with mock hostility in Catullus 16: : Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō, Aurēlī pathice et cinaede Fūrī, quī mē ex versiculīs meīs putāstis, quod sunt molliculī, parum pudīcum. :: ("I will bugger and facefuck you, pervert Aurelius and faggot Furius, since you thought me indecent because my poems are somewhat sissified.") The passive voice, pēdīcārī, is used of the person who is forced to submit to anal sex, as in Priapeia 35, in which the god Priapus threatens a thief: :pēdīcābere, fūr, semel; sed īdem sī dēprēnsus eris bis, irrumābō.
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Unlike the Kimi, Yosano called for Japanese women to "unify in loyalty" for the "cause of the Emperor's forces". The American scholar Steven Robson noted that unlike the Kimi, which like the rest of Yosano's early poetry was extremely innovative, Citizens of Japan is cliche- ridden as Yosano used well-known phrases like "a samurai's honor" taken straight from the ultra-nationalist press without developing a vocabulary of her own.Steve Rabson "Yosano Akiko on War: To Give One's Life or Not: A Question of Which War" pages 45-74 from The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Volume 25, Issue 1, April 1991 page 59. Yosano ended her poem by praising Bushido, declaring that the "purest" act a Japanese man could perform was to die for the Emperor in battle and urged the Kwantung Army forward onward in the conquest of Manchuria "through suffering a hundredfold" to "smash the sissified dreams of compromise".Louise Young (historian)Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998 page 84. Yosano's poems from 1937 onward support the war against China, and in 1941, she supported war against the United States and the United Kingdom.
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