The Dick-Tionary!!

Think you know the difference between an asshole and a douchebag? Your guide to understanding insults leveled at guys.

 

I ran across this article while surfing around the Web looking for inspiration. It was 3 am so give em a break here, lol. Name calling is a sport that most of us take part in at some point in our lives and that most grow out of at an early age. But there are always 'Tags' we apply to people do expouse our feelings toward them.

These 'Slurs' are better know when a man applies them to a woman; 'The lexicon of lady slurs is wide, colorful, and divided into two big buckets of derision: you sleep with too many people (slut, tramp, whore) or you don’t sleep with enough people, or not the “right” people (bitch, prude, dyke). But what about the dudes?'

Lets explore 'Slurs' as applied to men and coming from women.

Asshole: A man displaying an egocentric disregard for the opinions, needs, and feelings of those around him. He is rude, obnoxious, and self-centered. Women may think incidences of assholery are isolated, but usually we just find arrogance attractive, conflating an overblown ego with healthy confidence.

Creep: While douchebags and assholes might be irritating and difficult to dissuade, creeps give you the heebie-jeebies. They possess a particular lack of social awareness that manifests as the inability to interpret social cues, especially from women. They may stand too close, refuse to leave, or make inappropriate sexual comments with a scary, manic desperation. When a woman doesn’t respond to their advances, creeps assume she must be a stuck-up dyke-y feminist bitch.

Douchebag: A dick move may make you a temporary asshole, but a pattern of bad behavior can land you with the unfortunate label of douchebag. Where the asshole veers towards self-involvement, the douchebag is actively and intentionally abrasive.  Douchebage dudes are particularly frustrating because no level of insult or call-out can dissuade them from their own awesome opinion of themselves.

A few examples of people whom women have applied these quaint names to:

Assholes on Screen: Bender (The Breakfast Club), Johnny Lawrence (The Karate Kid), Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother), Tommy Gavin (Rescue Me), Ari Gold (Entourage)

Creeps on Screen: Johnny Drama (Entourage), Jabba the Hutt (Star Wars), Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino (Jersey Shore), Chazz Reinhold (Wedding Crashers)

Douchebags on Screen: Bill Lumbergh (Office Space), Glenn Guglia (The Wedding Singer), Sack Lodge (Wedding Crashers), the cast of Tool Academy

Now you know who you are being compared to when that woman two stools down form you, at your local bar, calls you one of these cute and loving names.

Love ya,

Night