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You know, I'm actually rather uncomfortable with the current popular usage among the Daily Show-watching set of using "[has] balls" and "[is a] pussy" as slang for possessing admirable bravado and contemptible cowardliness or passivity, respectively.

Since the people employing the phrase are the furthest thing from ripsnorting redstaters, I suppose that there's a sense of ironic fun to be had by stepping briefly into George Liquor's shoes for a moment, passing an indictment as one who believes that men primarily validate themselves by going in there and changing the world, and women do it by quietly submitting to authority.

It's a little shocking to hear it coming from you, and so we all laugh. But when I hear you say it over and over again, I do start to wonder.

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Yeah, it is obnoxious, though I don't so much mind the "takes balls" - or gonads, or ovaries, both of which do seem to be getting more popular - as much as I do the "pussy" insult, which I do find offensive (likewise "wuss"). Honestly, there are other insults out there that convey "coward." Insults/compliments based on genitalia also strike me as just incredibly juvenile, and I don't have a lot of patience for that, period.