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A dominant woman and a submissive man practicing feminization. Feminization or feminisation, sometimes forced feminization (shortened to forcefem or forced femme), [1] [2] and also known as sissification, [3] is a practice in dominance and submission or kink subcultures, involving reversal of gender roles and making a submissive male take on a feminine role, which includes cross-dressing.
Sissy (derived from sister), also sissy baby, sissy boy, sissy man, sissy pants, etc., is a pejorative term for a boy or man who does not demonstrate masculine traits, and shows possible signs of fragility. Generally, sissy implies a lack of courage, strength, athleticism, coordination, testosterone, male libido, and stoicism.
Effeminate comes from Latin effeminātus, from the factitive prefix ex-(from ex 'out') and femina 'woman'; it means 'made feminine, emasculated, weakened'.. Other vernacular words for effeminacy include: pansy, nelly, pretty boy, nancy boy, girly boy, molly, sissy, pussy, tomgirl, femboy, [4] roseboy, baby, and girl (when applied to a boy or, especially, adult man).
The term is borrowed from the modern French phrase en femme [12] [13] meaning "as a woman", Most crossdressers also use a female name whilst en femme; that is their "femme name". In the cross-dressing community the persona a man adopts when he dresses as a woman is known as his " femme self".
Cambridge Dictionary has expanded its definition of the word "woman" to be inclusive of transgender women. In addition to the longtime definition of the word, "an adult female human being," in the ...
Women's and gender studies scholar Mimi Marinucci writes that some consider the 'cisgender–transgender' binary distinction to be as dangerous or self-defeating as the masculine–feminine gender binary because it lumps people who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) together (over-simplistically, in her view) with a heteronormative ...
What is the meaning of the word spinster? "Spinster" is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as, "a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ...
"The only people left from the original cast are Johnny Whitaker and me," Garver said. Producers decided to reunite Garver and Whitaker, not knowing that there was some bad blood between the two.