Spread the word! His new nick-name is "President Snowflake".

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19. I want to be on your side

but yes, I think if someone in a public position had used any kind of slur against any group, I would want to know about it. DU is a site I trust--people here reliably challenge sources, as do I, so I am secure in repeating information that is verified here. And I think it's important for people like you (and to a lesser extent me, only because my consciousness was late in being raised) to know about those slurs and make sure everyone here is alert to them.

I would imagine that "sissy" is a term that might be used even among fairly enlightened people who aren't really thinking about what they are saying, and that kind of casual sexism--like casual bigotry of any kind--is imho the most dangerous kind. We kind of had the same situation here, with the OP. Our calling attention to the offensive word got it removed, and maybe sensitized some people to the offensiveness of the term. A Teaching Moment, if you will, that would not have occurred if the offensive term had not appeared here at all.

I would go even further and say that it's our duty to report and call out offensive language, and the more offensive the language is, the more important it is that it be noticed, reported and reacted to.