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The next year, China banned “sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics” from broadcast television.

In high school, I was known as the sissy kid with liberal politics who loved Jesus.

It made us sissies and tomboys, villains and monsters, tragic victims and sexless bystanders for decades before the relatively recent, hard-won introduction of complex, multilayered queer leads.

“It shows that ‘sissy’ can come in any form.

Backstage in the green room Ferrell’s band, whose members have taken to calling her “sissy” — the Southernism for “sister” — mugged for the camera, taking selfies to send back home to Nashville.