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minus-squareTeppichbrand@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoI agree and I don’t want to start a fight, but Pussy is a strange insult.
minus-squarefalseWhite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoPussy = coward. And that is what they are - cowards hiding behind masks.
minus-squaretree_frog_and_rain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoThey are cowards. And calling them that carries more weight to be honest. Calling someone a pussy is comparing them to folks genitals. And if you’ve ever seen someone give birth, you know pussies are far braver than dicks.
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI always thought it came from pussy(cat), like scaredy-cat Also, fun fact! The word “puss” for cat probably comes from “pspsps” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puss
minus-squaretree_frog_and_rain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoIt may come from that but the playground bully usage is similar to don’t be a girl. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/raising-compassionate-boys-dont-pussy-kzh/
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agopusillanimous - lacking courage, cowardly
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agohttps://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24012 There’s no positive evidence for the pusillanimous → pussy derivation as a genuine historical source — it seems to be a sporadic folk etymology.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoIt’s from the word pusillanimous
I agree and I don’t want to start a fight, but Pussy is a strange insult.
Pussy = coward. And that is what they are - cowards hiding behind masks.
They are cowards. And calling them that carries more weight to be honest.
Calling someone a pussy is comparing them to folks genitals. And if you’ve ever seen someone give birth, you know pussies are far braver than dicks.
I always thought it came from pussy(cat), like scaredy-cat
Also, fun fact! The word “puss” for cat probably comes from “pspsps”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puss
It may come from that but the playground bully usage is similar to don’t be a girl.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/raising-compassionate-boys-dont-pussy-kzh/
pusillanimous - lacking courage, cowardly
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24012
It’s from the word pusillanimous