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How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits
Virgin Books
February 2008
On Sale: February 5, 2008
176 pages
ISBN: 190526416X
EAN: 9781905264162
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Praised by The New York Times Book Review for being
“persuasive [and] provocative,” John Strausbaugh reveals in
furious, funny, and ferocious strokes how Americans became
sissified, soft, and scared—and offers us unforgettable
solutions on how to snap out of it. The American Sissy
cocoons in a safe, virtual world— Fundadome. He plays with
online friendsters and he plays with himself, anything to
abate the growing anxiety about everything from terrorists
to sex and spinach, air and water. He votes for sissy
leaders, who lash out at the world like bullies—sissies in
tough-guy drag. He’s so afraid of death and illness he
doesn’t really live; he medicates and analyzes. And he’s so
busy following the lives of the rich and famous that he has
no time to have a rich and fulfilled life of his own. “I
don’t mean sissy as girly man versus manly man,” Strausbaugh
says. “This is not about big biceps. It’s about shrinking
balls. And unless we stop acting like such sissies, soon
enough some lean, angry barbarians from somewhere out Beyond
Fundadome are going to overrun us, ramming their bayonets in
our fat guts like fingers poking the Pillsbury Doughboy, and
we won’t be giggling.” Strausbaugh leaves no sacred cow untipped. He is as
non-partisan as he is a straight shooter, 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.
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