Editing Pussy (section)

===Weakness===
{{see also|Gender role}}
The word ''pussy'' is also used in a derogatory sense to mean cowardly, weak, or easily fatigued. The ''Collins Dictionary'' says: {{nowrap|"(}}taboo, slang, mainly US) an ineffectual or timid person."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pussies|title=Pussies definition and meaning &#124; Collins English Dictionary|website=www.collinsdictionary.com}}</ref> It may refer to a male who is not considered sufficiently masculine, as in: "The coach calls us pussies."<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jim McKay|author2=Michael A. Messner|author3=Donald Sabo|title=Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Osehn3at7GoC&pg=PA39|year=2000|publisher=SAGE |page=39|isbn=9780761912729}}</ref>

Men who are dominated by women (particularly by their partners or spouses and at one time referred to as "hen-pecked"; see [[pecking order]]) can be referred to as ''pussy-whipped'' (or simply ''whipped'' in slightly more polite society or media).<ref>{{Citation |last1=Ayto |first1=John|title=pussy-whip |date=2010-01-01 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199543700.001.0001/acref-9780199543700-e-3863 |work=The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang |editor-last=Ayto |editor-first=John |access-date=2024-01-03 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199543700.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-954370-0 |last2=Simpson |first2=John|editor2-last=Simpson |editor2-first=John}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author-link=Collins English Dictionary |title=Definition of 'pussy-whipped' in American English |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/pussy-whipped |access-date=January 3, 2024 |website=Collins Dictionary}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-26 |title=Definition of WHIP |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whip |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en |quote=What does whipped mean in slang use? In slang use, if someone in a romantic relationship is whipped, they let their romantic partner have a great deal of control over what they do, where they go, etc.}}</ref> This may be used simply to denigrate a man who is contented in a relationship. The hyphenated phrase is parsed as "whipped by pussy", a manipulative relationship dynamic wherein a female deliberately or subconsciously withholds sexual intercourse to coerce the male into surrendering power in other aspects of the relationship.