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Pussy word is used for men who lacks daring in reasonable situations. I don’t see how it is rude & misogynistic? Probably they are sexist if they think woman can not be unemotional, stoic, strong and courageous.
Is pussy in the meaning of coward related to woman genitals? I always thought it was from pussy as in kitten. It doesn’t really make sense if it’s from the vulva meaning.
That’s the funny thing about language. How words transform doesn’t always make sense. Virtually nobody who is a native speaker of English uses the word “pussy” to mean “cat/kitten,” anymore. It is almost exclusively used to mean a vulva, and whether it started as meaning a cat or not when used as an insult, I believe it no longer carries that same connotation of “cat” as its primary meaning.
I would suspect, though this is just my guess, that you would be in the minority, today, for thinking that pussy being used as an insult refers to kittens. I agree that makes more logical sense, but language and idioms aren’t always logical.