Just before 1 am, Big Freedia comes in – a tall, rangy-bodied former high-school cheerleader with a cute Rihanna-style cropped hairdo, dressed down in jeans and a T-shirt and swinging a casual, trendy, red handbag on her wrist. She has a self-possessed, almost regal vibe in counterpo...
origin:Diminutive ofsis, which is common slang for sister (1840). Ware declares it to have originated in 1890 as a Society term for an effeminate man; the Oxford English Dictionary (O.E.D.) claims it is of U.S. origin; American meaning for effeminate man 1859; Anglicized before 1887...
Concerning this, Daniel Boyarin states that certain modes of conduct would have been derided as unmanly, dishonorable, “unheroic” and outright “sissy-ish” by the non-Jewish surrounding. The very same behavior would have been viewed positively when judged according to the canon of values of ...