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Thread #122830   Message #2698121
Posted By: Richard Bridge
11-Aug-09 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
No, seriously, the issue is that it is a sexual insult. The second-level meaning is that the "wanker" is unable to obtain two-party sexual congress. It is a statement that the wanker is disempowered. Thus there is an implication that sexual relations are a matter of one party overpowering the other - and usually the intendedly empowered party is the male.