From an interview with Wanda Sykes in this month’s Believer:
WS: I know that whole “sassy” thing still bugs me.
BLVR: It’s such an easy tag.
WS: Not only that, but I don’t like to be called anything gender-specific. You don’t call a man that. You know? If I did Shakespeare one day, I’d still get “sassy.” “Sassy Ophelia!”