One of the weirder elements – of what has been a seriously weird year of politics – has been the rise of the term ‘cuck’ or ‘cuckservative‘. As this GQ article explains, it’s an insult used within the right to suggest someone is weak and reluctant to take a firm conservative stance. The derivation is obviously from the sexual kink of cuckolding.
Personally I don’t really care if the American right wing beats itself up, but I do find the term puzzling. The key element of cuckolding is surely the ‘cheating’ aspect and the feelings that provokes. By definition it needs at least three people, with one of them getting off on being spurned and denied. Maybe the cuckold gets off on the woman’s pleasure, or masochistically on the humiliation and rejection, but either way it’s a secret source of enjoyment. Do how does this dynamic map to the insult? If Donald Trump is the bull and Jeb Bush the cuck, who or what is the woman? How is the cheating happening? And is Jeb supposed to be getting a thrill out of it? It doesn’t really make much sense to me.
If nuts on the right want to raid the BDSM lexicon for insults, then surely ‘sissy’ would be a much better word to steal. That has no trio dynamics, and aligns more closely to the intended meaning of weak, effeminate and insufficiently red blooded. It even works in the longer form of ‘sissyservative’. That’s not to say I’d personally use or support such a term, but at least it’d make a bit much logical sense. Although in the current climate, logical sense is perhaps expecting too much.
This sissy artwork is by Voloh. You can see more from the same artist at his imagefap account and on hentai foundry.
Logical sense has left the building years ago and took early retirement, we’ve been told, for mental health reasons.
Last spotted hiking due south along a beach somewhere in Patagonia.
The insult doesn’t refer to the kink, but to the more traditional meaning of a man with an unfaithful wife. As I understand it (as a UK citizen with an interest in American politics), it is quite a complex extended metaphor in which America is a wife who is being taken from her traditional husband, Conservative White Guy. Conservative White Guy is a “Cuckservative” if he is unwilling to recognise this or act against the groups (Black people, Latinos, other immigrants, Liberals, etc) who are “stealing” America from him. Needless to say, this has a pretty obnoxious subtext of patriarchy, Nativism and White Supremacism. Can anyone think of a reason why this sort of term might have gained currency recently?
Ha. I’ve just read the GQ article and realise that I have contributed nothing new. Oops.
To err is all too human, Finndog. So don’t beat yourself up.
Best leave that to others, who specialise in such activities … at a price 😉