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Slurred Lines: How 'Cuck' Spread Across Reddit

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> This leads to the conclusion that "cuck" in its shortened form was popularised on 4chan or a similar imageboard, corroborating the argument made in the Mel Magazine article.

Yeah, this is true. I remember it being used as a generic insult (almost replacing the classic *-fag from old 4chan yore) maybe in 2011-2012? For a while I thought it was just a random word someone started using and it caught on - no idea it would get this "big".

I'm pretty sure it's derived from cuckold.

From the link:

> Cuck began its life as cuckold, and when exactly its shortening became de rigeur will likely remain a mystery unless any intrepid data adventurer can scrape the entire log of 4chan from 2013/14 without losing the will to live. Looking at the normalised graph above, you can see that the misogynists of TheRedPill have been using "cuckold" since their subreddit began, and that it appears to have been shortened to "cuck" in 4chan at some point in 2014. The term emerged in the manosphere, and its misogynistic connotations have stuck with it ever since.

I would take issue with misogynistic as it 99% of the time is used for a man...

“Cuckold” is a derogatory term directed at men whose derogatory nature is itself grounded in a misogynistic worldview in which women are property and making sexual use of one belonging to another man is a sign of strength while having the one that belongs to you being made use of by another man is a sign of weakness.

That it is used about a man does not mean it is not misogynistic.

This, it has nothing to do with cuckservative

I think that the evolution would be cuckold to cuck, with cuckservative a derivative after cuck was already established.

I read the first 2 paragraphs and that is all I needed to read to know this is utter bias garbage. Essentially "mean people called me mean things and cuck is a word born from ultra-right extremists who are mean and arn't smart like me.

How and why has this been linked to on HN? Has it been flagged already?

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