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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday's lesson: Fellatio is a bad thing
Isn't that what people frequently tell other people they don't like? Suck a *** or frequently suck MY ***?
Democratic Underground 2014: Where it is OK to use homophobic slurs and rape threats as long as they are against the people we don't like.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)that a homophobic and misogynistic insult was hidden.
There's another one praising the guy who is fond of using such insults as if he's some kind of hero.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's 'ok on DU' to use homophobic / misogynistic insults or find them amusing... but if a jury hides it all hell will break loose.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)He asked How many men had ever had their Blahs Blahhed. Most hands in the audience went up. then he asked how many men had ever blahhed a blah and all the hands went down.
Yes, at its root that humor is homophobic but the truth is that straight men do not like the idea of blahhing a blah no matter how much they like getting their blahs blahhed.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)said no man ever.
Orrex
(63,208 posts)It can be, but it can equally be a generic insult along the lines of "commit some act to humiliate/injure/diminish yourself for my benefit/amusement/satisfaction."
Seem unlikely? Well, the language abounds with such idioms. For example:
"Drop dead."
"Go to hell."
"Go soak your head."
"Go jump in a lake."
"Eat shit."
"Kiss my ass."
"Get stuffed."
"Go take a flying leap."
"Go fuck yourself."
"Go take a long walk off a short pier."
"Get bent."
"Eat my shorts."
etc. etc. etc.
All of these have more or less the same meaning.
To concentrate solely on the perceived sexual connotation of the idiom is to pursue one possible interpretation to the exclusion of all others, with little clear justification to do so. The purpose is to deride the recipient. The particular mechanism is a function of societal norms and colloquial tradition.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Cuz you can't talk if you have something in your mouth.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)In what context is sucking a cock not sexual?
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)No one is going to stop me from occasionally saying "so and so" should eat a bag of dicks. Its just a much more fun way to say "go to hell".
I'm half and half on this political correctness shit. Words and phrases that are obviously used with bigoted intentions against a particular group are always a big no no in my book. But its getting to the point where people are pretending that certain things are sexist or homophobic just to get attention.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Cunnilingus too.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)all to yourselves (you're welcome).
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)If you want to insult a straight man .... I mean really put him in his place ... then tell him to do those horrible, demeaning things that gay men and straight women do. That'll show him.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)I can like someone's work in general, and still think some particular thing they did is a big steaming pile. I'm complicated like that.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)It seems soul-poisoning and kinda sad, really.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)There are people here in a rage about that who support a political figure who spent 17 years ranting about God's dislike of equality, claiming that marriage has been 'one man and one woman, since the dawn of time' and that sort of thing. That is a far greater hostility than what the Rude P said, more important hostility and it poisoned not just souls, but the law and public discourse.
So when some poster is wailing about that post, but then cheers for a person who said stuff like "Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman." And said it until a few months ago I find their ethics to be highly selective, situational even.
To me, someone ranting on for the sake of ranting is less important than a major politician saying what every last one of them has said for ages, what Hillary just now stopped saying, and so on.
It's stupid. If you are backing a candidate who has said all that awful toxic stuff for so long, with no real reason to do so at all, then you need to get over this other stuff.
Seriously. It is hypocrisy.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I throw insults around occassionally, but I don't get crude about it. I think it shows more class to insult somebody and they are unaware they have been insulted.