Well, jp, let me tell ya - first, did you ever spend any time in a high-school boys' locker room? Didn't think so. It was a different dimension, in the best of Serling tradition, and one of the most powerfully derogatory epithets known in taht dimension was the term "pussy", as in the female genitalia. Probably because at that time many of the listeners didn't know the medically-correct terminology.
Anyway, when we were with girls, and wanted to down another guy (it was never used about girls, at least not in taht sense), the p-word was somehow deemed less than acceptable and we said (as a thinly-disguised substitute) "wuss". I can remember my high-school steady asking me, the first time she heard it, what it meant... |
