Appreciate it. Taking in the new information and modifying your behavior as a result deserves major respect. The people recoiling and trying to justify the continued usage is pretty yikes.
Hey I’m comfortable adjusting language so I don’t hurt anyone. I’ve just literally never in my entire life heard cocksucker used as a homophobic slur on the internet or irl
Really going off the rails here, but maybe read up on some of this before taking a stance and calling someone else's stance embarrassing. https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=is+cock+sucker+homophobic
I’m not going to continue a back and forth about the use of that word in this thread, not what it is about. Just wanted to give my two cents. Appreciate CaneKnight’s response. This is an awesome thread.
I hear ya especially with the blatantly homophobic slurs. I’ve called friends bitches, but I never thought of them as female when saying it—for them to stop whining and crying.
Cocksucker is absolutely a gay slur. I understand that a lot of people may not realize it, but it is.
I mean my goal has never been to offend anyone except of course fascists. I hope I offend all of those mother fuckers. Even if one person has a problem I’m more than happy to adjust. I’d like to think we’d all afford each other that same courtesy here as we would for anyone IRL.
God dammit I hate having to adjust my insult arsenal for my friends because apparently I never knew some dickheads coopted it at some point to be actually hateful.
I’ve never heard a woman called a cock sucker. “She’s a real cock sucker.” Never heard it. Logically, it must have started as a homophobic slur.
How was it ever not hateful? It's pretty clearly homophobic when directed at dudes like it pretty much exclusively is. I'm not sure how you could interpret it any other way
Like I said I’ve literally never heard it used as anything other than a synonym for piece of shit and never once as homophobic. And I’ve been around a lot of homophobia in my life unfortunately.
Yeah. Using it as a synonym for piece of shit is homophobic. The implication is that a man who sucks dick is a piece of shit. That's homophobic language
Love you guys I will not be saying any insults anymore at all because man they all seem to have bad origins good night and god bless
It’s a homophobic slur, though I’m pretty sure CaneKnight didn’t mean it as one. That said, should it be? I don’t think gay people are and should be ashamed of doing that, nor should straight people be offended by the concept of doing it even though they might not do it themselves. Im also drunk.
Well I guess the Sunday drinkers are showing themselves Disclosure, I'm drinking, just haven't been looking at my phone for a while
when I was in junior high/high school I heard guys call girls cocksuckers frequently (negatively implying they are sluts). Probably guys who had been rejected by them but idk guys I grew up in rural Arkansas in the 90s I don’t think this is some brain buster
Using an anecdote from the 90’s on why an insult is ok isn’t the best route, and it was a really weird way to phrase it.
when tf did I say it’s okay? And sorry I learned all my sick burn insults as a kid didn’t realize that was an adult activity
I’m not trying to shame anyone for saying it, I’ve called people it many times, but the pushback in this thread to it being pointed out as problematic is extremely dumb. Just understand and moving forward, idk, try to be more thoughtful