• glimse@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Have you?? It’s about getting cheated on, he’s clearly not on board with it lol

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      3 days ago

      Cuckolding doesn’t imply consent. In fact it pretty specifically implies that the man doesn’t know it. The word has been in the English language for almost a thousand years, whereas the fetish is relatively new.

      Fun fact: giving someone “bunny ears” by putting two fingers behind their head used to be referred to as “the horns of the cuckold”, and it meant that you were saying that person’s wife had been unfaithful.

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          3 days ago

          So? The definition is the same.

          You can look these things up before you comment.

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            3 days ago

            Why on earth would I look up the original definition for a word when someone used the slang that derived from it and I already knew both definitions?

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          That’s just turning the adjective into a verb. It’s literally the same thing. This is a common practice in the English language. It doesn’t change the meaning, only how it’s used in a sentence. If someone “cucks” you, that’s them doing the action that makes you a cuck(old).

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      3 days ago

      4chan/Incel culture has co-opted “cuckolding” from a consensual kink to mean just plain old getting cheated on.

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        Kink culture has co-opted it from plain old getting cheated on to a consensual kink.

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        So you really think the fetish came first? Because the word predates the modern fetish usage by like 800 years.

        It comes from the cuckoo bird, which engages in nest parasitism. It lays its eggs in another bird’s nest to be raised by birds that aren’t its parents.

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        …if you’re not going to do anything about it, i.e. watch it happen, that’s the definition of cuckoldry