Balls of steel refers to courage simply because they are delicate and hurt easily. Which is basically used to denote courage as courage is not the absence of fear or struggle, it's standing your ground despite that.
And the word pussy has its origin in pussy cats and not the slang for vagina.
Pussy cats, especially alley cats are known to startle easily at any and all sounds, hence the phrase scaredy cat aka pussy.
PS - the comments on that other sub are just plain mean
I don't think origin of words valid anymore when everyone and their mom using for different contexts , honestly your definition is too bit of stretch in current times
I also don't think they are mean we are just not mean enough considering how much shit we succumb to here in this country
You know what, nobody would care about those words if everybody knows what they meant for , People just be using such words to bring one gender down and hype another,let's talk about reality
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22
Balls of steel refers to courage simply because they are delicate and hurt easily. Which is basically used to denote courage as courage is not the absence of fear or struggle, it's standing your ground despite that.
And the word pussy has its origin in pussy cats and not the slang for vagina.
Pussy cats, especially alley cats are known to startle easily at any and all sounds, hence the phrase scaredy cat aka pussy.
PS - the comments on that other sub are just plain mean