Douchebag as the racial epithet for ol' whitey

[Ishcabittle]

https://medium.com/@michaelcohen/do...l-slur-weve-all-been-waiting-for-a2323002f85d

 

[Ishcabittle]

Similar threads are pretty fun.

 

[headvoid]

Actually a very well written article. You can tell he is a professor.

 

[Kyehlar]

 

[Cassie]

That was really good!

 

[Ishcabittle]

I'm on the phone with a douchebag right now, in fact.

 

[CaptainWacky]

It only works if you're American though. Imagine a British person saying "douchebag." Just sounds wrong.

 

[Love Child]

Oooooh! I just remembered gaming with someone from the UK- and they asked the meaning of the word. Real fun to explain.

 

[headvoid]

There are similarities.

We use "Pikey" or "Chav" which are lower class white slurs.

You wouldn't call a black guy a Tosser though. So I make a shout for Tosser being a very effective white middle class insult. If you get very angry you can say Wanker.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

First Known Use: 1766 The word douche came to English via French, from Italian: doccia "conduit pipe" and docciare "pour by drops" to douche, from doccia water pipe, probably back-formation from doccione conduit, from Latin: duction-, ductio means of conveying water, from ducere to lead—here today it means shower,[3] as it does in most other European languages.

Americans use "douchebag" because we're too timid to call people "cunts" in everyday discourse, like in the UK.

 

[Cassie]

And also douchebag isn't a reference to a lady's vagina.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

No, but it's vagina-adjacent.

(I think that will be my new drag name - Vagina Adjacent)

 

[Ishcabittle]

Vagina Adjacent

Pretty priceless!

 

[Love Child]

Americans use "douchebag" because we're too timid to call people "cunts" in everyday discourse, like in the UK.

Yeah, I remember when they asked me and I explained and all they said was, "it is just soap" and that was that. They laughed.

 

[jack]

It only works if you're American though. Imagine a British person saying "douchebag." Just sounds wrong.

"doitchbawg"??

 

[Ishcabittle]

"deauxshh bagg"??

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

"flushy bladder"

 

[Cassie]

I think John Oliver could pull off saying douchebag. HE PROBABLY HAS.

 

[CaptainWacky]

In the future there will be no more race or class divisions and we'll all be boohats.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I hear people at work (here in the UK) calling eachother douchebags, but now I think about it, those people are almost exclusively douchebags themselves, repeating what they heard from American tv.