They would far prefer to have stationed there tough, highly-trained fighting troops rather than "cissy" ones.
Many workers regard it as being cissy to wear such equipment.
People must be taught that it is not cissy to wear this protective clothing, but that, instead, only a fool does not wear it.
There was the prohibition against little boys in elementary schools playing in football competitions; the desire, perhaps to create a nation of cissies.
I do not think that we want to make soldiers into cissies.
It was the animal welfare people who are scorned as cissies by a large section of the community.
They are fighting it in a society where the prevailing tone is that virtue is "cissy" and that people must go with the crowd.
These people will respond to that sort of thing, when they think it cissy to sit in a club.