BYU fans and others quickly attacked for sayg ‘sissy’ is a gay slur. Except, is. This is why.
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THIS IS WHY SO MANY GAY MEN SAY ‘SISSY’ IS A HURTFUL SLUR
On a si note: when I was younger I heard a really good middle school mor that the cursive Stsy logo said “I’m Gay. By your iendly neighborhood gay November 5, 2018FlagGet the Stsy mug. Over the urse of the next 48 hours I got streams of msag — some nasty, some reasonable — om people firmly entrenched the “sissy isn’t homophobic” mp.
My biggt takeaway through the exchang and ensug Twter war is that so many people have absolutely no ia the power the word “sissy” has wh so many gay men. To be clear, I wasn’t llg any dividual homophobic.
While a word or a sign uld be homophobic or sexist, the person rryg the sign may have no ep unrstandg of that.