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The worst thing about “douche” is that it lacks a clear meaning. Calling someone an “asshole” means something. So do “loser” and “jerk”. But when someone says “douche”, it just means “I don’t like them, but am too lazy to articulate why”. Maybe that person is a violent, alcoholic banker on trial for rape, or maybe he’s a pot head from the midwest who writes about conspiracies on his blog.
“I don’t like ‘em and I’m not sayin’ why.”
I’ll give him the “loser” and “jerk” argument. However, what differentiates “douche” from “asshole”? Both relate to generally unpleasant parts of the anatomy (although, there are those that find both fun!) and not specific actions like the others. When you call someone an asshole, do you really mean that they’re literally a hole in somebody’s ass? Maybe! But probably not.
Similarly, with “douche” you’re (typically) not referring to somebody as the equipment/liquid/process/whatever of flushing the vagina. You’re merely equating them with the assumed unpleasantness. Just like with asshole! Douche just had (and still does!) a pleasantly different mouth-feel than asshole (or asshat, asswipe, shitslice, fucktard, cunt, et al).
That’s not to say that I don’t think douche is currently overused. I do! And rarely use it, personally. I much prefer twatwaffle now!
(And Gawker totally covered the “douche is démodé” issue all the way back in November of 2006. Which is approximately 304 years in internet time.)
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