Reply #17: As a gay male I can say I have never, ever heard the term [View All]

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"sucks" deemed as an anti-gay slur. Now I did find this below via a google search showing there is probably a sexual origin. But I don't think that "sucks" is really linked with the term "cocksucker" by 99% of the people that use it. It lost its connection. "vandal" originally from the Vandals who sacked Rome, so "vandal" could be considered an ethnic slur (I believe the statue of limitations has run out on that one). Same with "welch" on a promise or you "gyped" me from gypsie.

http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifsckbvrynstsfyng.shtml

"It is pretty clear that "suck" started out as a sexual insult,
e.g., "Charlie sucks", what he sucks being unnecessary to spell out.
As a term of general disapproval it did not take long to be applied
to all sorts of things, animate and inanimate, to the point where it
is now used by all manner of people, small children included,
without any consciousness whatsoever of the sexual origin of the
term. Some of them seem to find it very hard to accept that it ever
had a sexual connotation. It has crossed the Atlantic, but would be
regarded both by those who use it and those accustomed to hearing it
as a conscious Americanism."