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Related: About this forumWhy Angry White Men Love Calling People “Cucks”
If youve been on Twitter in the last few months, chances are youve come across cuck, a word that youd previously only seen while your browser was in Incognito Mode.
Its literal meaning references a submissive man sexually cuckolded by a woman. Now, it is a catch-all among the alt-right, in the dark corners of the internet where #feminismisacancer hashtags are a badge of pride and the real enemy is PC culture, where cuck has become shorthand for any perceived weakness, or rather, perceived reluctance to exploit strength.
The word gained political potency during the 2016 election in the portmanteau cuckservative (cuck + conservative) used to imply that the mainstream conservatives of the Jeb Bush variety are weak and effeminate. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is not a cuckservative. He says what he wants and doesnt care if its offensive. In reference to Trumps comments about Megyn Kelly having blood coming out of her wherever, radio host Rush Limbaugh snarked, If Trump were your average, ordinary, cuckolded Republican, he would have apologized by now.
But Donald Trump doesnt apologize. He went on to win the Republican presidential nomination as Jeb Bush, the one-time favorite, was irrevocably set back by a simple insult from Trump delivered with an invisible wink: low-energy.
Since The Donald bested the field of cuckservatives with his manly virility and full head of hair, those who couldnt see a good insult go to waste have continued to use it in its shortened formcuckwhich applies first to anyone supporting Hillary, but also anyone who would challenge Donald Trump on his spelling, his logic, or his facts.
So now that a word previously only used for pornography or in 4chan has achieved mainstream political significance, its time to ask the question: Why has the word cuck resonated with so many angry white men?
An insult is, by nature, telling of its source: you never insult with something that you dont think is insulting. A woman would never sneer that another woman is fat if she herself would be comfortable with her body at any size, if fatness werent something she feared. A man mocking the size of another mans genitals broadcasts his own belief that the length of ones penis is something to be either proud or embarrassed about.
The cultural importance of the cuckold in America is rooted in racism: in pornography, the wife of the cuckolded (almost exclusively white) husband is most commonly sleeping with African-American men, meant to provide an additional layer of humiliation if the white husband sees that man as inferior. In the world of pornography meant to elicit humiliation as an erotic sentiment, cuckold porn takes advantage of its viewers racist perceptions.
http://www.gq.com/story/why-angry-white-men-love-calling-people-cucks
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,065 posts)The gradual pivot from anti-black to anti-woman that I've been expecting.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Quayblue
(1,045 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Identity politics, I think, forming strong intersectional coalitions that are here to stay and continues to grow.
MrScorpio
(73,714 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)"...the angry white men who use the word 'cuck' can exhale, safe in the understanding that, even if only for a few more years, their views are still shared by millions of other Americans. They will go on calling others 'cucks,' pretending theyre not afraid of their own impotence."
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)and probably will never have wives? They live in a fantasy world and talk amoung themselves about how they are true men.
So now they use that porn thing that anyone without that dumb Trump bravado has a small dick and cannot satisfy a woman.
I would expect that of them. They know nothing about women, and they are racist to boot.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)MRAs and worse scum who think that threatening to rape and murder is something to be proud of. One of the sites I frequent catalogs the worst of those types, and holds them up to public ridicule-- I was seeing that shit like two years ago wondering where the trend came from. Disturbing to see it enter the political sphere now.
OneGrassRoot
(23,443 posts)This is all new to me. I don't use twitter much, as I know it is an especially racist, misogynistic cesspool. Wasn't at all aware of this cuck/cuckold focus.
I'm just getting more acquainted with the alt-right group that seem to have evolved from previous more independent (though racist and misogynistic) groups.
I just did a FB search for #cuck and WOW. Some of the groups sharing this filth surprised me, specifically OCCUPY groups.
Holy shit, I'm sick to my stomach...
The level of loathing for women, people of color, immigrants, Muslims and Jewish people is palpable.
OneGrassRoot
(23,443 posts)This shit is really unnerving.
Also, does anyone else see how the extreme left and right are now intersecting? This Quora discussion lists sites like Counter-Current as what is shaping the movement. I know a lot of people who consider themselves on the left -- and eschew either mainstream party -- who follow that site.