Help with Sissy

While watching the BYU vs Mississippi State game Friday night, I saw the poster referred to in this SL Tribune article:

http://www.sltrib.com/home/4477428-155/scott-d-pierce-rushing-the-field



"You can't say Mississippi without saying sissy."



Really? That poster was aimed at the LGBT community? I remember seeing it, but I had no idea what it meant, and it never occurred to me that it was a gay slur I was looking at. Was it really? Can't the individual be tracked down per the film footage and asked?



This is kind of taking off nationally, of course fueled by this article trying to make something out of it, but I'd really like to know here if anyone else legitimately believed the female in question was making a stab at the LGBT community. If she wasn't, which I tend to believe, what did the poster mean?

It was just a poster trying to be funny. We beat them didn't we?

scott715 wrote:
It was just a poster trying to be funny. We beat them didn't we?

That's what I'm thinking. It's been the weirdest week. We beat a lower level SEC team in double overtime, didn't get invited to the B12 party because their invitation to be considered was simply a ploy by them to get more money from the networks without doing anything, and now local and national media is trying to make that comment into a racial slur--specifically aimed at the LGBT community and at the same time making such a big deal of the fans storming the field like that was the stupidest thing fans have ever done for beating a 2-3 team (at the time).



What a way to take away from a good win. That wasn't Wyoming or UNLV we were playing.

NO. It is NOT a slur toward the homosexual community or members thereof.



People will say anything to try to get their 15 minutes ...

I read the article last night. Have never heard someone use the term "sissy" as anything more than in the context of a wimp. Did the author mean it was a sexist term? Still have no idea how it could be used as a derogatory homosexual term...



Why does this matter to anyone?

Pierce is such a jackyewt. Which I guess is fitting considering the rag of a newspaper he works for. I'd bet my firstborn that a gay insult didn't even cross the lady with the "sissy" sign's mind. But I suppose Pierce, being the hack he is, is just following suit and making everything about gays. Cause, ya know, the whole world revolves around them. :whistle:

Twitter seems to be alive with an old Scott Pierce Tweet where he said "Parenting isn't for sissies" So he's all "do as I say not as I do" now

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Pierce is getting absolutely battered on social media today for his story thinking that is what the sign meant.

I haven't seen anyone point out that Scott just called homosexuals sissies. None that I know are. Why isn't he being called out on that?

Shhhh but you can't say Texas without saying ass.....For that matter you can't say Wyoming without asking Wy.....

BoiseBYU wrote:
Shhhh but you can't say Texas without saying ass.....For that matter you can't say Wyoming without asking Wy.....

state-a-phobe!!!!!!!!

People like Scott Pierce use their fake outrage to bully and silence other people; all in the name of anti-bullying of course.

Boney Fuller posted a tweet showing many instances of where the salt lake trollbune has used the word "sissy" in their own articles. Someone with the 'skillz' should post it here for our cougarcorner family.

Jarhead wrote:
Boney Fuller posted a tweet showing many instances of where the salt lake trollbune has used the word "sissy" in their own articles. Someone with the 'skillz' should post it here for our cougarcorner family.

Including where Pierce used it himself. Hence the reason he had to tweet an apology today. What a fool.

This morning I was listening to the sports talk radio program Out Kick The Coverage on foxsports radio with Clay Travis and he brought up the Scott Pierce article and he ripped him and the article apart. He's a national radio host he isn't local and he's never heard of this being a gay slang. He didn't receive one tweet one email or one text saying he was wrong. Everyone agreed Sotts article was garbage. Went as far to say Scott Pierce has to have personal ill feelings towards BYU to come out with something as absurd as this. He even defended BYU's position on LBGT even though he personally doesn't agree with it.

BroncoBot wrote:

Shhhh but you can't say Texas without saying ass.....For that matter you can't say Wyoming without asking Wy.....

state-a-phobe!!!!!!!!

Then there's OklaHOMA!

My son mentioned to me that he had heard that the female in question has apologized for the poster, but I haven't found that in any articles yet. I still think it was a somewhat dumb thing to write as it disparages people from Mississippi even if it wasn't focused on the LGBT community. I"m glad to see a lot of media calling it what it was. When I first googled the phrase from her poster I saw negative comments, but that has changed overwhelming for those calling Pierce a "tool" for writing such.



I guess what got my goat the most over the Pierce article was when he said, "Yes, it is a gay slur. Don't even try to argue it's not." It was like, who died and made you king? Suddenly only you can determine these things and no one else need doubt your word. Hmmmmm. :skeptic:



With all probability it was a female BYU student. What's the probability that she would have made a poster that disparaged any group of people. Personally, still at a loss as to her true meaning, I think she was one of these 4.0 BYU students that are very intelligent, but definitely lack in common sense. I've sure met a lot of those types. It's stuff like this that some clueless people do that reflects so poorly on all of us sane BYU supporters 8)

It still wasn't a good sign even if it had nothing to do with LGBT. Still a bit classless I think. I know this is sports and it's competitive and there are losers, but why not put a message supporting one of our players instead??

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So he's apologized for using "sissies" in 2012, but sticking with his guns that it only exists as a homophobic slur and that BYU should be ashamed.



Essentially he's saying, if his apology is accepted as he intends it:

Scott Pierce should have wrote:
Sorry, what I meant to say in 2012 is that "Gay people should not be parents," and I should not have used the pejorative "sissies", cuz it's offensive and all.