Wow. This is such an interesting thread, and so good to see so many people expressing their own interpretations of what being a sissy does and doesn’t mean.
From my own point of view - I dress as a woman pretty much permanently. I still call it cross dressing, although others may refer to it differently.
I don’t want to be a woman, I just like dressing as one.
In my experience, women are very accepting of this, often fascinated by it. Men are generally a bit more wary, but I’ve never really had a problem, other than with the kind of man who seems to have a problem with everyone who isn’t also a skinheaded football hooligan, if you know the sort I mean.
I wonder if the reason men are more wary is that there actually may be a spectrum of masculinity/femininity. Very few are 100% one end or the other of that spectrum. So seeing another man acting femininely chimes to a greater or lesser extent with the man. He may well not have recognised that he is X% along the masculinity/femininity spectrum, so he’s not sure how to react.
I’m also a sissy, although unlike my cross dressing this is a very private thing, with only a very few people knowing about it.
From my own point of view, it has nothing at all to do with misogyny.
When I dress as a sissy it’s very much linked to humiliation. Last evening I wore pink frilly knickers and bra, white lacy/frilly top, white lacy tights with a white frilly garter belt on each leg, white frilly shorts (they’re so frilly they’re actually like baby knickers) and red patent high heels. I also applied bright red lipstick and matching nail varnish.
I can’t imagine any female wearing anything like that, although it was all female clothes. I was on my own, but I could imagine females laughing at me in such a sissyish outfit, and I loved it.