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.
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.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s definitely what the song is about. Have you never heard the lyrics?
glimse@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Have you?? It’s about getting cheated on, he’s clearly not on board with it lol
dmention7@midwest.social 3 days ago
4chan/Incel culture has co-opted “cuckolding” from a consensual kink to mean just plain old getting cheated on.
hakase@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Kink culture has co-opted it from plain old getting cheated on to a consensual kink.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
three@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
…if you’re not going to do anything about it, i.e. sick there and watch it happen, that’s the definition of cuckoldry
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 days ago
Ugh, another “literally”. Fuck that, let’s not validate incel nonsense.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 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.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He wrote “cucked” which is modern slang
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have probably heard this song over 10k times, if I’m lucky. If you were alive in the UK in the 00s, there was no fucking escape.