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sissy

noun as in timid or cowardly person

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As a child, Baldwin is marginalized for being too sensitive, too bookish, a “sissy.”

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The next year, China banned “sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics” from broadcast television.

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In high school, I was known as the sissy kid with liberal politics who loved Jesus.

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It made us sissies and tomboys, villains and monsters, tragic victims and sexless bystanders for decades before the relatively recent, hard-won introduction of complex, multilayered queer leads.

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“It shows that ‘sissy’ can come in any form.

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