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Looking at the story menu tonight, I am surprised at my own reaction to it. Referring to someone as a sissy is particularly off putting for me but talking about someone being feminized or even forcibly feminized is not. Odd that. This is in no way a criticism of others but simply refers to my own reaction to the word.
For the whole of my life, repeating the description of others I have been glaringly feminine, in spite of trying to conceal that for a large part of my life. And living fully as a woman since 2005, one would think that I would be over all that self loathing. Odd that.
Gwen
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Maybe one is real life moreso the the other?
Sissy is used in real life by bullies to taunt other kids. Maybe even unintentional bullies just copying what others say without realizing it is hurtful.
I think forced feminization is much more fictional and something the author find appealing and wish had happened to them.
People have are taking sissy back as a non-negative thing now, but for most of our lives it was the ultimate insult to one's masculinity.
Thanks Frank
Having known some very mean and abusive males early on, I've since met males that are not like that and it has taken a long time to be at ease around them.
Guilty
The word appears on my list and it is not one that I use. Here the character uses it as a self-description, and without the bullying connotation, but I agree that the word is commonly used to demean.
But there are plenty of people who are happy to call themselves sissies, as in feminine and submissive males who enjoy being humiliated for relishing a female role.
This is something that I have never understood about a large chunk of TG fiction - what is demeaning about being a woman? It is a role that I have always craved.
I think that in the TG community we always understand that there are so many shades of condition and experience that putting labels on them is not something we should take offence from.
Just my view.
Maryanne