• dmention7@midwest.social
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    6 hours ago

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

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

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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