The Pansy Craze

“These men are being very brave… because it doesn’t make them look typically powerful. I think that’s the beauty of it.” Effeminacy – the manifestation of traits in a boy that are more often associated with feminine nature, behaviour, mannerism, style, or gender roles. Effeminacy comes form Latin effeminates, from the factive prefix ex and femina ‘WOMAN’; it means ‘made feminine, emasculated, weakened. WHY IS PERFORMING FEMINITY SEEN AS WEAK? In ancient Greece the word for effeminate is cinaedus or malakoi; a man “whose most salient feature was a supposedly feminine love of being sexually penetrated by other men. Kinaidos – primarily signifying a purely effeminate dancer. PANSY, PRETTY BOY, NANCY BOY, MOLLY, SISSY, PRISSY, FEME BOY