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As a result, he equated art and culture "with the aesthetes of the 1890s, with homosexuals and with sissified music pupils of his mother" (17).

Many Americans doubted that college was the place to prepare for employment; college-based preparation for work was viewed as "academic," irrelevant, even sissified. For their part, the land-grants' leaders saw their institutions' future less as technical and trade training schools and more as universities with broad public responsibilities.

Adrian already understands the system enough to know that Drake will mock whatever effort any of the recruits makes as inadequate if not downright sissified. Shortly thereafter, Adrian proves the boot most capable of holding up buckets of sand in a strengthening exercise.

Millions of viewers watched laundered images and sissified speeches (Shame on you, Arnie, you Girly Man!) designed to soft-pedal American foreign policy and warm up imaginary crumbs of compassion left over from the last campaign.

Concerns about over-protected and sissified boys would resurface even more powerfully in the 1940s, as psychologists turned their attention to the pathological consequences of maternal tenderness on children, focusing on homosexuals and the shell-shocked veterans who were unable to withstand the rigors of war.

JAMES Caan, who stars in the Christmas hit movie Elf, describes film-making as a "sissified profession".

The image of maleness is shifting, with "metrosexuals" (straight men who pay serious attention to personal grooming) beginning to nudge traditional "macho" men (who think it sissified to pay too much attention to their appearance) aside.

Another reason he was called Harvey, Smith once said, is that he thought Chesterfield sounded sissified, so he went by his middle name until the military put an end to that.

(2002) provide an account of a conversation with a member of the Australian parliament in which traces of these problematic discourses surface in comments made about the problem of boys in school: Boys were being sissified and expected to give in to the feminisation of the world.

But while mainstream society has come to take these achievements for granted, the extremes of masculinist backlash openly denounce them as ill-gotten gains extorted by "the feminists" -- aided by the governments who fund them, the intellectuals who are duped by them, the media who coddle them, and the sissified men who enable them.

will we produce more terrorism by enraging the Muslim world?--can be portrayed as cowardly, feminine, "sissified," as right-wing columnist Walter Williams put it on townhall.com.

What is a pearl-handled, gold accented, sissified excuse for a real pistol doing on the cover of my American Handgunner?

There is nothing sissified in enjoying a good, dry rose.

Give me an out and proud sissified drag queen to idolize anytime over the self-serving, closeted Bean.

Asimov colliding with Raceway Park!--New World, indeed, and I a sissified Columbus who, at first ping upon petal, wishes to return to Europe forthwith.[ldots]