New Age Lifestyle

A regular topic is how a male partner is feminised and to what extent in an FLR. However, for many of us who take part in the process, we dress or are dressed in uniforms and clothing that no modern female would be seen dead in. Many of us love to wear corsets, girdles, corselettes and frilly lingerie that women of “yester-year” were subjected to and it is all part of what has traditionally been the subjugation of women.
My wife  regularly laughs at my uniforms which show a preference for wide skirts and layers of petticoats and make up that once again is probably a throw back to the 1950’s and 60’s. It was her who suggested that our mistress and maid relationship is not about feminisation, but sissification and she made quite a distinction. She argued  that if I was being feminised, I would be trying to look and act like a modern woman, copying styles and dress sense and being made up like a modern woman. She went on to say that I am undergoing sissification an that is almost like having a third gender. There is no way a sissy maid or just a sissy could really be considered to be female but at the same time, the look could hardly be described as male either so the idea is to become a sissy and then it is clear to all that in that role I am a male that is subservient to my partner and dress and take on the mannerisms of a character type that the true female form rejected and left behind some years ago.
The challenge for the modern woman then is to reduce the number of males on the planet by increasing the number of sissies. However, as in most aspects of life, there needs to be a balance as like in the Bee kingdom you also need drones or some part of society where the mundane and heavy lifting is completed. I know that there are some females that are physically strong and some males, often sissies that are lightweight and weak but in truth they are few in number and I would argue that in a female led society it would benefit the group as a whole to have “worker bees” that have the strength to carry out the tasks needed and are just used for that effect.
Any thoughts or counter-arguments?

Interesting thought. I always thought that feminization is something that is being done either by the male himself or by him having asked to be feminized, whereas sissification is something the female enforces on the male, with or without his explicit consent.

But you have made a very good point in stressing the difference between sissy garment and modern feminine garment and the the aspect of subjugation.

Feminizing males would mean making males like women, insinuating that they are on an equal footing with women. Sissifying males involves also the statement that they have become submissive and inferior to women, like housemaids in former times were submissive and inferior to their rich owners.   

Both Petula and Haraldje make interesting and valid  points here which are interesting in many ways.
But it seems to me they completely separate sissies and feminized males, whereas I might suggest there are many 'gray areas', where the two overlap. Some overlap a little, while others overlap to the point of duplication. It is this overlap where much has to be determined by the Mistress - what are her goals, what methods does she use to get these goals done, how much does the male have input, if any.
I imagine we could argue this forever, treating it like some goofy academic exercise, but to me, it is a very important consideration in the taking and training of a male to serve his Mistress as she wants.
Miss ATT

Not being an expert, i will nevertheless add two cents: Back in the Paleozoic Era when i was growing up, there was only "sissy" any guy that didn't adhere to some unwritten code that while everyone had their own understanding of it, absolutely knew when a hapless male stepped over the imaginary line. To me, sissy always implied a caricature of Femininity. As i view Feminization, it is less hyperbole or caricature and more an emulation of those traits traditionally assigned to the Female sex. So, taking Miss ATT's comments, I visualize the Venn diagram where the circle on the left represents Feminization and the circle on the right represents Sissification. Depending on the relationship the "overlap" of the two circles, and the degree to which they become one gives me a visualization of the conversation in this thread.

Further to, since I can remember I have adored women and their femininity, I suppose it is possible to be born with sissy tendencies but only a woman can really develop it fully for her benefit and the sissy will be hers forever. Born a sissy, created by a Woman!