>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > What an outburst of left prissiness that has brought out.
>
>Which also underlines your point about how deeply this "non-heterosexual
>male = deficient" opposition is ingrained in our speech -- it even shows
>up when we're inveighing against it. Prissy is prim + sissy.
>
>Michael
This is really a US thing. Russians don't do it. Of course, bisexuality is much more common in Russia, AFAICT.
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