What "drink" do you consider to be a sissy drink?

[peetie44]

QUESTION: is it the contents/ingredients of the drink itself, or the location/presentation where it's consumed, that makes it a "sissy drink"?

Example 1) a couple of homeless guys swilling wine from a brown paper bag on a street corner doesn't sound "sissy", but two well-dressed individuals drinking the same basic beverage from stemware in a neighborhood bar is often construed as such.

Example 2) Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra drinking martinis at the swank Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel is considered manly, yet the average guy drinking a martini in, say, a workingman's pub, would definitely raise some eyebrows (and maybe some fists).

So is it more the type of drink or rather where it's being consumed (and by whom) that defines a particular alcoholic beverage as being for "sissies"?

[Wingman]

I don't know, sometimes I'll see a dude holding a Smirnoff Ice or a Mike's Hard Lemonade and think a little less of him. Is this wrong?

unless he's waiting for his girl to get out of the restroom, and he's got a bourbon in his other hand, no.

"... and mines a babycham"
- Vivian Bastard

that's the one!

Exceptions made if surrounded by a fair amount of sand, bamboo, and/or dry grass.

good point, and peetie elaborates on this.

[One for the Frog]

Baileys, Jagermeister, and anything that comes with a sweet cherry in it.

[One for the Frog]

Oh yes. Half beer. That's the sissiest one.

[Resident Asshole]

QUESTION: is it the contents/ingredients of the drink itself, or the location/presentation where it's consumed, that makes it a "sissy drink"?

Example 1) a couple of homeless guys swilling wine from a brown paper bag on a street corner doesn't sound "sissy", but two well-dressed individuals drinking the same basic beverage from stemware in a neighborhood bar is often construed as such.

Example 2) Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra drinking martinis at the swank Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel is considered manly, yet the average guy drinking a martini in, say, a workingman's pub, would definitely raise some eyebrows (and maybe some fists).

So is it more the type of drink or rather where it's being consumed (and by whom) that defines a particular alcoholic beverage as being for "sissies"?

Bums are all sissies.

Drinking a martini is not sissy. Having the balls to do it in a dive bar is not sissy, but it might be dumb, as you will not become good friends with the bartender (and likely not other patrons either).

[Wingman]

Jagermeister.

despite the low proof, not sure i agree with this one.

anything that comes with a sweet cherry in it.

manhattan's a sissy drink? damn. oh, well, slap my ass and call me shirley, then.

[One for the Frog]

Jagermeister.

despite the low proof, not sure i agree with this one.

It's a sweet drink they call "bitter". It just doesn't make sense.

anything that comes with a sweet cherry in it.

manhattan's a sissy drink? damn. oh, well, slap my ass and call me shirley, then.

Ach, well. Now you have a point. However I never ask for the cherry.

[Wingman]

Jagermeister.

despite the low proof, not sure i agree with this one.

It's a sweet drink they call "bitter". It just doesn't make sense.

anything that comes with a sweet cherry in it.

manhattan's a sissy drink? damn. oh, well, slap my ass and call me shirley, then.

Ach, well. Now you have a point. However I never ask for the cherry.

don't think i'd call jager sweet, but that's a taste issue i guess, and everyone has their own. it's definitely overhyped and often drunk by amateurs, which may not make it sissy, but certainly suspect.

yeah, if there's a drop or two of cherry juice instead of a cherry in my manhattan, i don't get bent out of shape about it.

[greygoose]

Jagermeister.

despite the low proof, not sure i agree with this one..

Agreed. I've never drank Jagermeister (no, not Jagerbombs - that is sissy - drink your shit straight) and not gotten fucked up. Something in the chemical composition I suspect.

[hoverdog]

Bums are all sissies.

Oh yes the homeless war vet with a bottle of wine and a nasty case of PTSD snarling at you from some alley is definitely a sissy. Bukowski, another sissy.

[peetie44]

Bums are all sissies.

Drinking a martini is not sissy. Having the balls to do it in a dive bar is not sissy, but it might be dumb, as you will not become good friends with the bartender (and likely not other patrons either).

Ahh, another angle: "sissy" being in the eye of the beholder.

Interesting...

[Wingman]

Bums are all sissies.

Oh yes the homeless war vet with a bottle of wine and a nasty case of PTSD snarling at you from some alley is definitely a sissy. Bukowski, another sissy.

yeah, i don't even like camping out if i can help it. wait, did i just out myself....?

[Two Hearted]

yeah, i don't even like camping out if i can help it. wait, did i just out myself....?

Sissy.

[Resident Asshole]

Bums are all sissies.

Oh yes the homeless war vet with a bottle of wine and a nasty case of PTSD snarling at you from some alley is definitely a sissy. Bukowski, another sissy.

Please dude, it was a joke. And you're a sissy.

[Curb Feeler]

Example 1) a couple of homeless guys swilling wine from a brown paper bag on a street corner doesn't sound "sissy", but two well-dressed individuals drinking the same basic beverage from stemware in a neighborhood bar is often construed as such.

Example 2) Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra drinking martinis at the swank Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel is considered manly, yet the average guy drinking a martini in, say, a workingman's pub, would definitely raise some eyebrows (and maybe some fists).

It's a question of motivation I suppose. A bum drinks the cheapest shit he can find because, well, he's a bum, and picking up aluminum cans is probably a pain in his ass. Therefore, his choice of beverage is drivin solely by economics and economics, as far as I know, cannot be "manly or sissy".

And while drinking wine in a bar, regardless of attire, may not be common, I don't know that it should be considered a "sissy" practice. Pompous, irritating and completely inappropriate, maybe, but not sissy.

Unless ofcourse it a wine cooler or wine spritzer, in which case you should beat the fucker into submission and string him up outside the bar as a warning to the others.