Sissy Nation
Subtitle: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits
Publisher: Virgin Books; Distributed by Macmillan; Ebury Publishing
Published: February 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781905264162
Subjects: Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Essays; Popular Culture - General; Political Science / General; General; National characteristics, American; Political culture; Popular culture; United States
Description: "The American Sissy cocoons in a safe, virtual world - Fundadome. He plays with online friendsters and he plays with himself, anything to abate the pall of anxiety hanging over his head about everything from terrorists to spinach to air and sunshine. He votes for sissy leaders who bully the world - sissies in tough-guy drag. He's so afraid of death and illness, he doesn't really live - he overmedicates himself and overprotects his kids. And he's so busy preoccupied with the lives of the rich and famous that he forgets all about having a fulfilled life of his own." "Strausbaugh leaves no sacred cow untipped. He is as nonpartisan as he straight shooting taking equal aim at Democrats and Republicans, gays and straights, PETA fanatics, and the Christian right. But all is not lost. Sissy Nation offers "modest proposals" for getting back the gumption that made this culture great."--book jacket.