Just a polite reminder that using "butthurt" to mean "resentful"or "angry" paints a picture that is often homophobic and nearly always making light of rape. In my opinion, we should try not to normalize its use any further.
http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
Example: "autistic".
In recent times, this word is sometimes used as an insult, which seems to me to be somewhat offensive to those with the actual syndrome. However, referring to those who do have the syndrome as medically autistic is obviously not offensive.
This is a more clear-cut example to make the point that misappropriating a word and giving it secondary connotations in certain contexts does not make the word unfit for use in all cases.
Your source is the blog entry of some self-professed 'angry feminist' making up an etymology and then trying to police everyone's language on that basis. People like this are such insufferable know-it-alls.
Butt is not same as butthole.
I had never previously made a connection between that term and anal rape and frankly I'm irritated that ForrestN put the idea in my head.
Now, I know what it's like when you have a pet peeve about public discourse. For me, I wish people didn't use the term "cakewalk" or phrase "piece of cake", even though they do it innocently, because I once went and looked it up and it's fucking horrible. (If you go look it up, brace yourself, it's really ugly. It has to do with American slavery. You've been warned.)
I have this idea, I call it "The Grey File". It's like an idea for a sci-fi story. In the near future history will be controlled and whitewashed. All of the crazy bad stuff we used to do is almost entirely forgotten, but records are kept in a kind of museum called the Grey File. It's built in the middle of the desert, or on Antarctica, or somewhere inaccessible, and it's staffed by inmates: perverts who get off on corrupting innocence. It's kind of a prison for them.
The thing is, I can't tell if this idea is dystopian or utopian.
But since you did...
Well, it's been whitewashed there, as you might expect for an information source so prominent in the public eye.
I'll be damned if I'm going to try to unpack the enormities contained in the idea of masters awarding slaves cake for the best performances of their own mockery, here on HN, on a thread about FB.
I'll point out that the wikipedia section on "Fancy ladies" opens with a warning that "This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia."
These details have only recently escaped the Grey File. I didn't suspect about "Fancy ladies" until I read certain passages in Sam Clemens' uncensored autobiography when it was finally published in 2010. They sure don't teach this stuff in school.
My meta-point stands: should I feed you more details until you see the horrible truth, like some deviant that gets off on violating innocence? Should I keep my mouth shut and look forward to a day when all the nightmares have been forgotten?
As for being shocked so deeply by this, perhaps it's time to grow up a little and realise history isn't clean sections with adverts in-between and censoring of the violence, it's full of arseholes doing the most rotten shit they can get away with either for pleasure or gain, and then realise the shocker: those arseholes still exist.
You're reiterating my point. And also, perhaps, missing it at the same time?