You Don't Want To Be a Sissy

[Tragic Rabbit]

You Don?t Want To Be a Sissy

By TR

You don?t want to be a sissy,

You?re better off in camouflage;

Sissies don?t get asked out a lot

Though they do get cast in La Cage.

You don?t want to be a sissy,

Str8 acting is the ideal mate;

You?re better off a hairy mensch

For sissies have a lonely fate.

Some think they should be deported

To some far, mythic swishy land,

Others think they?re fun at parties

Where sissies might be in demand.

Sissies ?man? the Pride float parades

But otherwise they?re kept at bay-

Too queer, too femme, not man enough-

Just too damn obviously gay.

You don?t want to be a sissy

But you might want to wear a star,

So when with a girl on your arm

You are still seen for what you are.

Doing girls doesn?t make you str8

Nor the garage make you a car;

But true sissies are most admired

At a distance and from afar.

Do you want to be a target

For all the jerks and stupid jokes?

Do you want to spend nights alone

When your ?boyfriend? visits his folks?

Macho men are the gay ideal

Else, why spend hours in the gym,

Str8 acting means your voice is heard

Before the guy who?s swish and slim.

You might fall in love with sissies-

I can?t blame you; I do myself-

But most would rather be seen with

A man more manly than himself.

No, sissies don?t get any perks

And few gay men want to be one:

Tolerated but not esteemed

Though in the nights, they are more fun.

The truth isn?t like externals

For macho men aren?t keen to top,

But get a sissy in the sheets

And you?ll be begging him to stop.

Of all the shades of being gay

You get least dick if you?re prissy,

Str8 acting is the easy role

It takes balls to be a sissy.

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[Jason Rimbaud]

Hey Tr,

Great rebuttable! (probably mis-spelled, sorry) As usual, I reach for my dictionary to look up

certain words but, I like learning new words. And I know I'm a bit slow, but I can't for the life of

me figure out how to say La Cage, because the way I say it, it doesn't rhyme with camouflage.

And the only definition I can find, La Cage is the partial title of a French film. I don't understand

this reference, though I can assume the interpretation. Do you care to explain TR? Please

As for this line

Of all the shades of being gay

You get least dick if you?re prissy,

Str8 acting is the easy role

It takes balls to be a sissy.

This made me laugh.

I like this one.

Jason R.

[Tragic Rabbit]

Hey Tr,

Great rebuttable! (probably mis-spelled, sorry) As usual, I reach for my dictionary to look up

certain words but, I like learning new words. And I know I'm a bit slow, but I can't for the life of

me figure out how to say La Cage, because the way I say it, it doesn't rhyme with camouflage.

And the only definition I can find, La Cage is the partial title of a French film. I don't understand

this reference, though I can assume the interpretation. Do you care to explain TR? Please

It's common shorthand for La Cage Aux Folles a great play and French film series about a gay couple. 'La Cage' is pronounced LA Kaazsh...I'm not sure how to write it for English speakers but it does rhyme with camouflage...the g is soft and extended, exactly as in camouflage. Promise!

Rebuttal. Yes, I used to be a cross-x debater, just like Gene Kuo in Drama Club, though our team didn't have quite as much money for competing nationally. Gene's an idealized (gay) debater, he's not me. Really.

As for this line

Of all the shades of being gay

You get least dick if you?re prissy,

Str8 acting is the easy role

It takes balls to be a sissy.

This made me laugh.

I like this one.

Jason R.

Thanks! It was just fun and not meant to annoy anyone, just another perspective on sissies...has anyone else here read Sissyphobia or Sexual Oppression and Gender Phobia in Queer Men's Lives?

Kisses...

TR

[Jason Rimbaud]

Thanks,

Jason R.