Back in the day, to have called anyone a "pansy" or a "sissy," simply meant that he was timid, cowardly. In that famous movie The Wizard of Oz, the character shown in the above image was referred to as the "Cowardly Lion". It is fitting, for my present purpose, that he is shown posing amidst a setting of flowers: the whole scene reminds me of a lot of churches I have seen -- with some or other "cowardly lion" standing at the pulpit, surrounded by bouquets of flowers, professedly preaching the Gospel.
