Do you think there are any ways in which society has gone backward, and not forward, in being understanding and progressive?

Let's pretend that you aren't approaching the subject by committing the etymological fallacy (which you definitely are).

These all come From the OED:

Pussy, n. and adj.

a: Chiefly colloq. A girl or woman exhibiting characteristics associated with a cat

?a1560   in T. Wright Songs & Ballads Reign Philip & Mary (1860) lxxiv. 209   Adew, my pretty pussy, Yow pynche me very nere.

b: nursery and colloq. A cat. Freq. used as a proper or pet name.

1699   T. D'Urfey Choice Coll. New Songs 7   As Fleet as my Feet Could convey me I sped; To Johnny who many Times Pussey had fed.

c: The female genitals; the vulva or vagina.

1699   T. D'Urfey Choice Coll. New Songs 7   As Fleet as my Feet Could convey me I sped; To Johnny who many Times Pussey had fed.

d: slang (chiefly N. Amer.). A sweet or effeminate male; (in later use chiefly) a weakling, a coward, a sissy

1904   ‘M. Corelli’ God's Good Man xxi,   I shall invite Roxmouth and his tame pussy, Mr. Marius Longford.

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