Cunning Linguists
January 15, 2025 12:16 AM Subscribe
The American Dialect Society has selected rawdog as Word of the Year for 2024.
"The vote is the longest-running such vote anywhere, the only one not tied to commercial interests, and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others lead. It is fully informed by the members’ expertise in the study of words, but it is far from a solemn occasion."
"The vote is the longest-running such vote anywhere, the only one not tied to commercial interests, and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others lead. It is fully informed by the members’ expertise in the study of words, but it is far from a solemn occasion."
Well, great job linguists, my Matrix glitch detection protocol is totally busted.
posted by 1adam12 at 12:30 AM on January 15 [6 favorites]
posted by 1adam12 at 12:30 AM on January 15 [6 favorites]
Fun longlist. They spelled Haliey Welch's name wrong, though. (An understandable mistake. Even a Reddit sub about unusually spelled names didn't anticipate hers.)
posted by rory at 12:46 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
posted by rory at 12:46 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
They spelled Haliey Welch's name wrong, though
In related bitcon singularity news.. Donald Trump was also named Times Person of the Year.
posted by rubatan at 1:23 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
In related bitcon singularity news.. Donald Trump was also named Times Person of the Year.
posted by rubatan at 1:23 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
"rawdog is a great choice for Word of the Year as we collectively rawdog the future of American politics in 2025.”
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:30 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:30 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
This is my first time hearing this word used outside of the sexual context, and I guess it's going to take a minute before I'm going to be entirely comfortable if, say, a student uses it in casual conversation.
posted by hydropsyche at 4:02 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
posted by hydropsyche at 4:02 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
Sadly, rawdog winning out over brat sort of sums up the situation in the U.S.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 4:03 AM on January 15 [22 favorites]
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 4:03 AM on January 15 [22 favorites]
The historic list is quite the read.
I feel like we’re sanewashing the choice of rawdog, though.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:10 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
I feel like we’re sanewashing the choice of rawdog, though.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:10 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
if, say, a student uses it in casual conversation
You can jump the gun next time you give test and specify whether it's open-book, open-notes, or rawdog.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 4:11 AM on January 15 [38 favorites]
You can jump the gun next time you give test and specify whether it's open-book, open-notes, or rawdog.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 4:11 AM on January 15 [38 favorites]
I’m fully convinced that the guy who made the original post on the plane didn’t know what the word meant and just doubled down with the ‘more general’ definition rather than admit he didn’t know.
Compare and contrast with Harrison Ford indignantly backing down when confronted with the real definition in “Shrinking”
Paul : First you raw dog me at the store! Now you're raw dogging me in my office!
Liz : Would you please stop saying raw dog.
Paul : I'll say whatever the hell I want.
Liz : [Turning to Jimmy] Tell him what raw dog means.
Jimmy : [Stammering] Sex without a condom.
Paul : ... Alright, I'll stop saying it.
posted by TwoWordReview at 4:21 AM on January 15 [21 favorites]
Compare and contrast with Harrison Ford indignantly backing down when confronted with the real definition in “Shrinking”
Paul : First you raw dog me at the store! Now you're raw dogging me in my office!
Liz : Would you please stop saying raw dog.
Paul : I'll say whatever the hell I want.
Liz : [Turning to Jimmy] Tell him what raw dog means.
Jimmy : [Stammering] Sex without a condom.
Paul : ... Alright, I'll stop saying it.
posted by TwoWordReview at 4:21 AM on January 15 [21 favorites]
Gross. This now replaces “ butthurt” as my most-hated word used by the unwashed masses. If elitist means “ not the dumbest motherf***er in the room”, I’ll be an elitist!
posted by caviar2d2 at 5:16 AM on January 15 [10 favorites]
posted by caviar2d2 at 5:16 AM on January 15 [10 favorites]
Ah, there’s the money shot
posted by dr_dank at 5:24 AM on January 15 [6 favorites]
posted by dr_dank at 5:24 AM on January 15 [6 favorites]
Surprised to see 'yap' on the list of contenders - any idea how that made the jump from English English?
posted by biffa at 5:30 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by biffa at 5:30 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
“In 2024 folks rawdogged flights, family dinners, and final exams.
OK, whoever or whatever sent the meteorite that was caught on camera? Next time send a really big one plzkthxbai
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:39 AM on January 15 [7 favorites]
OK, whoever or whatever sent the meteorite that was caught on camera? Next time send a really big one plzkthxbai
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:39 AM on January 15 [7 favorites]
Honest question - How does one rawdog a family dinner?
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:46 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:46 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
Honest question - How does one rawdog a family dinner?
My vague recollection is that it meant attending a big family dinner, like Thanksgiving, with all its stereotypical drama, while staying sober.
posted by solotoro at 6:05 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
My vague recollection is that it meant attending a big family dinner, like Thanksgiving, with all its stereotypical drama, while staying sober.
posted by solotoro at 6:05 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
I like how a word that has so many meanings is "Word of the Year".
posted by tommasz at 6:08 AM on January 15
posted by tommasz at 6:08 AM on January 15
Staying sober is rawdogging family dinner? Wow... I married into an evangelical abstaining family so just about every meal I've ever had with them has been rawdogged. Alcohol would not have improved things.
posted by Ashwagandha at 6:12 AM on January 15 [4 favorites]
posted by Ashwagandha at 6:12 AM on January 15 [4 favorites]
“tradwife” and “sanewashing” are both more useful.
posted by Lemkin at 6:18 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
posted by Lemkin at 6:18 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
I was enjoying reading the nominees in the press release but I had to dip when I got to “jawmaxxing”
posted by ejs at 6:19 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by ejs at 6:19 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Alcohol would not have improved things.
Citation needed.
posted by chavenet at 6:27 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
Citation needed.
posted by chavenet at 6:27 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
ugh what stupid fucking word
posted by ovvl at 6:34 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
posted by ovvl at 6:34 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
A linguist friend who goes to WOTY every year informs me that one of the attendees' de-facto voting criteria lately has been "how hilarious will it be when mild-mannered and straightlaced mainstream publications have to explain this word?"
–ussy seems like the all-time winner on that axis, but rawdog is up there.
posted by Birds, snakes, and aeroplanes at 6:35 AM on January 15 [23 favorites]
–ussy seems like the all-time winner on that axis, but rawdog is up there.
posted by Birds, snakes, and aeroplanes at 6:35 AM on January 15 [23 favorites]
With every passing year, we seem to come closer and closer to the world of Kurt Vonnegut's "The Big Space Fuck".
posted by senor biggles at 7:17 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
posted by senor biggles at 7:17 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
I used the expression "raw dog" in a non-sexual manner in a text to a buddy last month.
He responded "I don't think that means what you think it means ;)"
I took irrational delight in forwarding that ADS announcement to him just now.
posted by ifatfirstyoudontsucceed at 7:22 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
He responded "I don't think that means what you think it means ;)"
I took irrational delight in forwarding that ADS announcement to him just now.
posted by ifatfirstyoudontsucceed at 7:22 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
I feel like rawdogging a family dinner would be showing up with nothing, not helping with set up or clean up, and leaving pretty early. Basically being a selfish person. That’s the image I get.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:44 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:44 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
When I was a teenager, adults around me were always troubled by how casually my friends and I would say that something "sucks," because they were used to that being a really dirty expression that you would only use sparingly. We rolled our eyes. Whatever, old people.
This is the first time I've been on the other side of that, because to me rawdog is not just sexual but filthy. Definitely takes some getting used to to hear about someone rawdogging a flight or whatever.
Anyway, they changed what "it" was, etc etc, it'll happen to you!
posted by Ragged Richard at 8:04 AM on January 15 [16 favorites]
This is the first time I've been on the other side of that, because to me rawdog is not just sexual but filthy. Definitely takes some getting used to to hear about someone rawdogging a flight or whatever.
Anyway, they changed what "it" was, etc etc, it'll happen to you!
posted by Ragged Richard at 8:04 AM on January 15 [16 favorites]
Citation needed.
Well for me personally at that moment? Probably would help a bit. But in my experience there's always repercussions. I have had to, because I am French Canadian and grew up Catholic, explain that I am not an alcoholic who engages in spousal abuse for drinking a single glass of wine. Yes French Canadian = Alcoholic wife beater in their minds and yes I have had this conversation more than once. So it is easier to "rawdog".
I feel like rawdogging a family dinner would be showing up with nothing, not helping with set up or clean up, and leaving pretty early.
In a normal household I can see that and certainly in my own family that would be the case. But as a man, that is not expected of me in the context of the evangelical household I married into. In fact most of the men rarely do any of that. When I was first dating my partner, in their household the head of the family must be served first and given the largest portion. Thankfully that has changed over time but there was a time when because I often make most of the food for them I was often thought of as a homosexual because of this. Fun times.
posted by Ashwagandha at 8:07 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
Well for me personally at that moment? Probably would help a bit. But in my experience there's always repercussions. I have had to, because I am French Canadian and grew up Catholic, explain that I am not an alcoholic who engages in spousal abuse for drinking a single glass of wine. Yes French Canadian = Alcoholic wife beater in their minds and yes I have had this conversation more than once. So it is easier to "rawdog".
I feel like rawdogging a family dinner would be showing up with nothing, not helping with set up or clean up, and leaving pretty early.
In a normal household I can see that and certainly in my own family that would be the case. But as a man, that is not expected of me in the context of the evangelical household I married into. In fact most of the men rarely do any of that. When I was first dating my partner, in their household the head of the family must be served first and given the largest portion. Thankfully that has changed over time but there was a time when because I often make most of the food for them I was often thought of as a homosexual because of this. Fun times.
posted by Ashwagandha at 8:07 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
Perhaps Alcoholics Anonymous will rebrand as RAWDOGGIN LYFE.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:12 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:12 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
Biffa, yap, in its current usage, joined the American lexicon through TikTok.
posted by Headfullofair at 8:18 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by Headfullofair at 8:18 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I was there. Well, I was at the LSA. During this particular vote, though, I was eating in Chinatown with my cohort of linguists. Rawdogging hotpot, as it were.
posted by os tuberoes at 8:19 AM on January 15 [4 favorites]
posted by os tuberoes at 8:19 AM on January 15 [4 favorites]
Would rawdogging hot pot mean you all were just drinking hot pot without adding anything? So collectively eating broth?
posted by Ashwagandha at 8:30 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
posted by Ashwagandha at 8:30 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
On the one hand, the term broligarchy made me laugh, and on the other hand, that's pretty much what oligarchy already meant.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:38 AM on January 15 [12 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 8:38 AM on January 15 [12 favorites]
Staying sober is rawdogging family dinner? Wow... I married into an evangelical abstaining family so just about every meal I've ever had with them has been rawdogged. Alcohol would not have improved things.
Who said anything about alcohol? There's lots of ways to not be sober.
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Outside of a very limited number of occasions in the queer community, I have literally only ever heard rawdogging used in non-sexual contexts. Do people get upset about barebacking horses as well now?
posted by Dysk at 8:39 AM on January 15
Who said anything about alcohol? There's lots of ways to not be sober.
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Outside of a very limited number of occasions in the queer community, I have literally only ever heard rawdogging used in non-sexual contexts. Do people get upset about barebacking horses as well now?
posted by Dysk at 8:39 AM on January 15
Pretty sure barebacking as in horses is the older usage.
I was raised by evangelicals for part of my youth and I don’t know why I never questioned the use of grape juice for communion instead of wine. Basically they were saying Jesus didn’t have the strength of character to do it the right way at the last supper!
The linked press release is very interesting and makes me feel old. Oh well, I still can’t get used to the vanishingly-small percentage of people that don’t misuse “begs the question.” Now get off my rawdoggin’ lawn!
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 8:54 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
I was raised by evangelicals for part of my youth and I don’t know why I never questioned the use of grape juice for communion instead of wine. Basically they were saying Jesus didn’t have the strength of character to do it the right way at the last supper!
The linked press release is very interesting and makes me feel old. Oh well, I still can’t get used to the vanishingly-small percentage of people that don’t misuse “begs the question.” Now get off my rawdoggin’ lawn!
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 8:54 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
By the way, there should be a service for MF-ers to get help coming up with post titles. I can never think of good ones like this.
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 8:55 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 8:55 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
You can jump the gun next time you give test and specify whether it's open-book, open-notes, or rawdog.
I suddenly wish I was still teaching.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:00 AM on January 15 [9 favorites]
I suddenly wish I was still teaching.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:00 AM on January 15 [9 favorites]
Rawdog, dumb word. English is in decline.
posted by Liquidwolf at 9:18 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by Liquidwolf at 9:18 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
yap, in its current usage, joined the American lexicon through TikTok.
Usage of the words "yappin'" and "yapping" date back to 1990s and 2000s rap music,
Wha? Yap has been around and used this way forever. I remember it from old Warner Bros cartoons.
posted by Liquidwolf at 9:25 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
Usage of the words "yappin'" and "yapping" date back to 1990s and 2000s rap music,
Wha? Yap has been around and used this way forever. I remember it from old Warner Bros cartoons.
posted by Liquidwolf at 9:25 AM on January 15 [5 favorites]
"Yap" has been "yap" for yonks! Funny that the kids think it's new.
However, looking it up in Headfullofair's link, I do feel like a certain linguistic opportunity was lost here:
On April 16th, 2023, TikToker[10] @canadianrailfan posted a video of a dog biting at the air, captioned, "what is bro yappin about," gaining over 10,000 plays in five months.
So, I'm just going to start calling sex without a condom "yapping at air." No one can stop me.
posted by taz at 9:29 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
However, looking it up in Headfullofair's link, I do feel like a certain linguistic opportunity was lost here:
On April 16th, 2023, TikToker[10] @canadianrailfan posted a video of a dog biting at the air, captioned, "what is bro yappin about," gaining over 10,000 plays in five months.
So, I'm just going to start calling sex without a condom "yapping at air." No one can stop me.
posted by taz at 9:29 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Gross. This now replaces “ butthurt” as my most-hated word used by the unwashed masses.
Okay but “butthurt” normalizes the idea that penetrative sex for gay men is painful, punitive, and/or a negative experience for at least one party. It is further shaming of a specific category of people (homosexual male bottoms) who are already looked down upon and mocked by society for being “the woman” in a gay relationship.
And that is rightfully seen as not just offensive and harmful but also as punching down in virtually every context where it is actually used.
“Rawdog” is by comparison merely crass at roughly a “hawk tuah” level. It’s an unpleasant visual metaphor for an essential fact behind the existence of every person currently reading this or even potentially capable of doing so*. Each and every one of us is an end product of both rawdogging and creampies.
*(the vanishingly small percentage of people conceived via IVF excepted)
posted by Ryvar at 9:53 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
Okay but “butthurt” normalizes the idea that penetrative sex for gay men is painful, punitive, and/or a negative experience for at least one party. It is further shaming of a specific category of people (homosexual male bottoms) who are already looked down upon and mocked by society for being “the woman” in a gay relationship.
And that is rightfully seen as not just offensive and harmful but also as punching down in virtually every context where it is actually used.
“Rawdog” is by comparison merely crass at roughly a “hawk tuah” level. It’s an unpleasant visual metaphor for an essential fact behind the existence of every person currently reading this or even potentially capable of doing so*. Each and every one of us is an end product of both rawdogging and creampies.
*(the vanishingly small percentage of people conceived via IVF excepted)
posted by Ryvar at 9:53 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
omg, I just went down a rabbit hole (which I shall henceforth call a hole full of hare), and found the phrase "Schrödinger's douchebag"!
posted by taz at 10:03 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
posted by taz at 10:03 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
and found the phrase "Schrödinger's douchebag"
Now I’m trying to decide whether that’s in response to my pointing out that everyone is the end product of rawdogging and creampies... Hmmm.
*shrug* welp, I’m gonna collapse the wave function and go on record as saying I actually fully stand by that assertion.
posted by Ryvar at 10:11 AM on January 15
Now I’m trying to decide whether that’s in response to my pointing out that everyone is the end product of rawdogging and creampies... Hmmm.
*shrug* welp, I’m gonna collapse the wave function and go on record as saying I actually fully stand by that assertion.
posted by Ryvar at 10:11 AM on January 15
Raw dogging something is used a lot in my sphere, or at least a lot more than what appears to be the lived experience of the average Metafite. But while originally a sexual term it pretty much just means without protection or normal precautions with some of the nuance coming from what is seen as normal.
How does one rawdog a family dinner?
See above. That might mean teetotalling (from an array of mood altering substances, legal and not) or it might mean not carrying your security blanket.
posted by Mitheral at 10:19 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
How does one rawdog a family dinner?
See above. That might mean teetotalling (from an array of mood altering substances, legal and not) or it might mean not carrying your security blanket.
posted by Mitheral at 10:19 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
ha, ryver! No!! I was sort of trying to see the shift from the original meaning of rawdogging to ... hm, maybe "natural mode"? ... to what I often see now sort of used as "difficult mode," which is quite a shift from the original. And I somehow ended up at Schrödinger's douchebag. As one does.
posted by taz at 10:29 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
posted by taz at 10:29 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
What struck me was the definition of "crash out" as "to act irrationally or impulsively; to reach one’s limit." Since at least the early 90s, I've been familiar with "crash out" to just mean falling asleep somewhere, often abruptly (or when exhausted) and/or in a non-traditional sleeping spot. As in "Hey, if you need a place to crash out tonight, my sofa is free." So just a longer form of one use of "crash."
I don't recall ever seeing it used in a different way, until twice in the last 24 hours - here, and in conversation with my 13-year-old who clearly understood the phrase differently from me and in a manner closer to (though not quite identical with) that described in the press release.
posted by nickmark at 11:23 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
I don't recall ever seeing it used in a different way, until twice in the last 24 hours - here, and in conversation with my 13-year-old who clearly understood the phrase differently from me and in a manner closer to (though not quite identical with) that described in the press release.
posted by nickmark at 11:23 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
rawdog, n. one of several possible Wienerschnitzel food preparation failures.
posted by zaixfeep at 12:44 PM on January 15 [4 favorites]
posted by zaixfeep at 12:44 PM on January 15 [4 favorites]
It was much more shocking at the time, but I when I first saw this I thought it was one of the greatest tweets ever:
nesrin danan
@blackprints
the dude next to me on the plane just absolutely rawdogged this entire flight... he got on a TEN HOUR FLIGHT to europe in jeans, no headphones, no book, no neck pillow, literally just a paper cup of coffee without a lid like sir are you ok
2:05 AM Jun 22, 2022
posted by pickles_have_souls at 1:16 PM on January 15 [4 favorites]
nesrin danan
@blackprints
the dude next to me on the plane just absolutely rawdogged this entire flight... he got on a TEN HOUR FLIGHT to europe in jeans, no headphones, no book, no neck pillow, literally just a paper cup of coffee without a lid like sir are you ok
2:05 AM Jun 22, 2022
posted by pickles_have_souls at 1:16 PM on January 15 [4 favorites]
What struck me was the definition of "crash out" as "to act irrationally or impulsively; to reach one’s limit."
Like a lot of “Gen Z slang” I’m pretty sure this came via Black English/“street” culture and I’m pretty sure in the original context it was about thoughtlessly doing the kind of thing that you can go to prison over (see related: calling gang kids “crash dummies”) so it feels weird how it’s been softened.
“Raw dog” isn’t weird to me like that because I know the people who started applying it to non-sexual contexts knew what they were doing.
posted by atoxyl at 1:25 PM on January 15
Like a lot of “Gen Z slang” I’m pretty sure this came via Black English/“street” culture and I’m pretty sure in the original context it was about thoughtlessly doing the kind of thing that you can go to prison over (see related: calling gang kids “crash dummies”) so it feels weird how it’s been softened.
“Raw dog” isn’t weird to me like that because I know the people who started applying it to non-sexual contexts knew what they were doing.
posted by atoxyl at 1:25 PM on January 15
Like “hardcore” before it; rawdog has come to have so many practical uses in everyday context
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:18 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:18 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Also this thread has me giggling like a crazy person in my cube.
I knew y’all were witty but the citations appreciate a refresh from time to time
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:51 PM on January 15
I knew y’all were witty but the citations appreciate a refresh from time to time
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:51 PM on January 15
I feel like rawdogging a family dinner would be showing up with nothing, not helping with set up or clean up, and leaving pretty early.
Going without pre and post therapy arranged and leaving my healthy boundaries flash cards at home.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:53 PM on January 15 [2 favorites]
Going without pre and post therapy arranged and leaving my healthy boundaries flash cards at home.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:53 PM on January 15 [2 favorites]
Each and every one of us is an end product of both rawdogging and creampies.
"end" product?
posted by chavenet at 3:19 PM on January 15
"end" product?
posted by chavenet at 3:19 PM on January 15
Aw, I miss languagehat.
posted by Hobgoblin at 4:01 PM on January 15 [6 favorites]
posted by Hobgoblin at 4:01 PM on January 15 [6 favorites]
Inside a rawdog, it's too dark to read.
posted by phooky at 5:35 PM on January 15 [6 favorites]
posted by phooky at 5:35 PM on January 15 [6 favorites]
If you have not seen Tumblr user kwekstra's notes from the American Dialect Society conference, they are a significantly better source of sociolinguistic amusement than the selection of rawdog in itself.
posted by Jeanne at 7:23 PM on January 15 [3 favorites]
posted by Jeanne at 7:23 PM on January 15 [3 favorites]
Each and every one of us is an end product of both rawdogging and creampies.
My understanding of the latter word is something that explicitly does not result in reproduction (highly specific "what if" scenarios and things that totally happened to your cousin's hairdresser notwithstanding).
posted by rhiannonstone at 7:33 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
My understanding of the latter word is something that explicitly does not result in reproduction (highly specific "what if" scenarios and things that totally happened to your cousin's hairdresser notwithstanding).
posted by rhiannonstone at 7:33 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I have been informed by my partner that this is not a universal understanding of the word, and I was already starting to regret furthering a conversation about it, so nevermind move along nothing to see here. Girlypop did not eat.
posted by rhiannonstone at 7:42 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by rhiannonstone at 7:42 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I have been informed by my partner that this is not a universal understanding of the word, and I…
*wipes away tears of laughter* Tango down.
posted by Ryvar at 8:35 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
*wipes away tears of laughter* Tango down.
posted by Ryvar at 8:35 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I. Hate. This. Word.
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:06 AM on January 16 [1 favorite]
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:06 AM on January 16 [1 favorite]
Rawdog” is by comparison merely crass at roughly a “hawk tuah” level. It’s an unpleasant visual metaphor for an essential fact behind the existence of every person currently reading this or even potentially capable of doing so*. Each and every one of us is an end product of both rawdogging and creampies.
Rawdog is a word that explicitly positions the agent, the doer, the person, as choosing to use their bare penis to fuck someone else’s body, while thinking about that other person’s body as a risk, either of illness or unwanted parenthood, because the person with the penis wants to keep fucking.
“Creampie” isn’t any different: what anatomical prerequisites are required in order to do the verb “to creampie”? What is the direct object? Whose agency, whose pleasure or power, does the term point to? Are there, generally, different feelings or judgements people have about the doer vs. the recipient?
I am sick to fucking death of walking through the world and tripping over and over and over again on language and behavior and laws and cultural values that make [having a dick and using it to fuck who and how the Self wants to fuck] the very core of what it means to be a person.
I don’t have a dick: I, physiologically, cannot rawdog shit. I know not everyone else who doesn’t have a dick will feel the same kind of exhausted revulsion I do here, but a world in which even popular language reinforces the primacy of Having A Dick and Being The One Who Does The Fucking doesn’t feel in the least bit amusing to me - it’s sick and sad and infuriating.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:12 AM on January 16 [11 favorites]
Rawdog is a word that explicitly positions the agent, the doer, the person, as choosing to use their bare penis to fuck someone else’s body, while thinking about that other person’s body as a risk, either of illness or unwanted parenthood, because the person with the penis wants to keep fucking.
“Creampie” isn’t any different: what anatomical prerequisites are required in order to do the verb “to creampie”? What is the direct object? Whose agency, whose pleasure or power, does the term point to? Are there, generally, different feelings or judgements people have about the doer vs. the recipient?
I am sick to fucking death of walking through the world and tripping over and over and over again on language and behavior and laws and cultural values that make [having a dick and using it to fuck who and how the Self wants to fuck] the very core of what it means to be a person.
I don’t have a dick: I, physiologically, cannot rawdog shit. I know not everyone else who doesn’t have a dick will feel the same kind of exhausted revulsion I do here, but a world in which even popular language reinforces the primacy of Having A Dick and Being The One Who Does The Fucking doesn’t feel in the least bit amusing to me - it’s sick and sad and infuriating.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:12 AM on January 16 [11 favorites]
I also really really don't like this word (or this usage of this word, or whatever) so thank you to rrrrrrrrrt for putting in words why I dislike it so much.
posted by ngaiotonga at 6:31 AM on January 17 [1 favorite]
posted by ngaiotonga at 6:31 AM on January 17 [1 favorite]
Yeah. So today I learned, here on Metafilter, that the verb for Bluesky is “to skeet”. Meet the new bullshit, same as the old bullshit.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:34 PM on January 20
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:34 PM on January 20
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