It was butthurt. Tumblr mods even banned the term at one point claiming it was about anal rape. Merriam Webster investigated, said it was no such thing and the origins are murky but it's likely about a child being swatted on the backside.
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This is why I noped out of Tumblr in the 2010s. I cringed when it had an upsurge in the wake of Musk's takeover but I think they were too, well, Tumblr for the newbies and it has sunk back into obscurity but I recognize the usual archetypes from there.
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
IIRC that's where the term "woke", which really REALLY ought to be retired & should have been as soon as the far right glommed onto it, first gained currency.
aug 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh right, now I remember! I don't remember if I replied to that, but if I did I hope you'll pardon my forgetfulness; the volume of what I react to here is such every day that I often misremember what I said or didn't say. I personally have always thought of "butthurt" as being more in the sense...
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
...of somebody sitting in an uncomfortable spot where they really didn't have to sit for way too long, getting a nasty pain in their keister, and blaming everyone else for it.
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, I always took it to be a play on "pain in the butt" and their immediate assumption that any phrase involving butts immediately refers to anal intercourse is a them thing. English language loves its backsides!
aug 27, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I've never indulged in the practice myself - not finding that orifice to be erotic, and let's just leave it at that, shall we? - but I'm given to understand that, if done properly and with due care, it's *not* painful, so I must wonder what those people who associate it with pain get up to.
aug 27, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
(Though not too much, as I find the whole notion distinctly unprepossessing.)
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