From message-board comments posted on the website of Seattle’s Mars Hill megachurch under the name William Wallace II, recently revealed to be the church’s pastor and cofounder Mark Driscoll. Driscoll proposed adopting the following terms so as to be able to “say things without people getting their undies in a bind.”

manly man : any regenerate man who loves God and his neighbor and demonstrates it with grace-guided practical living and rigorous theology

rocks : the courage a man must have to be a manly man

pussified : any man who has lost his rocks and completed the process of remaining biologically male but become female…