Monday, November 9, 2009
Politics / Sex Today in Neologisms
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:44 PM
The Brownback hijack/redefinition seems pretty obvious: brownbacking is unprotected anal sex, or anal sex without condoms. The term should be understood to refer to risky unprotected anal with multiple and often anonymous partners and a self-identified "brownbacker"—someone with that bumper sticker on his car—is someone who seeks unprotected anal sex with multiple and often anonymous partners. Some will argue that there's already a term for that—barebacking—but why should those of us who disapprove of risky and unprotected anal sex use that term? Brownbackers prefer that term because it sounds sexy and healthy and glamorous and it lends itself to brownback-glamorizing bullshit like this. Those of us who disapprove of random, anonymous unprotected anal sex should call it brownbacking because it associates shitty behavior and shitty choices with actual shit.
And for the record: one of the perks of using condoms for anal sex, of course, is ease of cleanup should there be any santorum. With a condom, the santorum isn't all over your dick. The santorum all over the condom. Pull out, grab the base of the condom, hold it open, pull the condom up and over your dick, turning the condom inside out in the process, and discard. No santorum on your dick!
UPDATE: Atrios, inspired by our efforts to redefine santorum, encouraged his readers to come up with a new definition for Stupak this weekend. And they did. It's now the leading definition at Urban Dictionary...
A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe—unnecessarily so—back alley abortions as a result of the "Stupak Amendment" to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill.
Congrats, Atrios.
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DO YOU KNOW SOME THINGS ABOUT THE HOLIDAY THAT IS TODAY?
IT OCCURRS LIKE LOTS OF TIMES A YR.
MURK OFF 09!!! GET IN THA SPIRIT, CUZ U KNOW I ALRDY DID IT DIRTY ALL OVR YR EDITS.
I AM MAKING FUN OF U BC UR NAME IS VERY CLRLY A MISNOMER SYNONYM FOR EXISTING SLANGY BUTTSEX.
IT OCCURRS LIKE LOTS OF TIMES A YR.
MURK OFF 09!!! GET IN THA SPIRIT, CUZ U KNOW I ALRDY DID IT DIRTY ALL OVR YR EDITS.
I AM MAKING FUN OF U BC UR NAME IS VERY CLRLY A MISNOMER SYNONYM FOR EXISTING SLANGY BUTTSEX.
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First, what's the difference between brownbacking and saddlebacking? I think I know, but humor me.
Second, shouldn't condum use prevent santorum?
Second, shouldn't condum use prevent santorum?
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SEEEEEEEE~??~?~?~?~?~?~!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
EVN STUPE RENTON MIKE GETS THIS SHIT
WAH WAH WAH WANH WAH. WHY YOU SAY DAT, I AIN'T DO NUTTIN? PLZ CALL ME JERK ONE MORE TIME.
WELL APPARENTLY U AIN'T AFRAID TO RECYCLEZ YOKES. STUPE/FOO.
EVN STUPE RENTON MIKE GETS THIS SHIT
WAH WAH WAH WANH WAH. WHY YOU SAY DAT, I AIN'T DO NUTTIN? PLZ CALL ME JERK ONE MORE TIME.
WELL APPARENTLY U AIN'T AFRAID TO RECYCLEZ YOKES. STUPE/FOO.
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This sounds like a call for a Brownbacker website, like the Santorum website.
And the "I'm a Brownbacker" bumper stickers are definitely a perfect set up for a santorum type hijack.
Dan? Please?
And the "I'm a Brownbacker" bumper stickers are definitely a perfect set up for a santorum type hijack.
Dan? Please?
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I've also just heard "stupak" as sepsis caused by a back-alley abortion. It's too bad I won't have much cause in my own life to use that term, but it's nice to know it's there.
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Um, "turn the condom inside out?" Really? I hate it when that happens because then a big glop of my spoym drops on the bed, or the dude, or whatever...
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Wow, that POZ article was depressing. Even as someone who was born after the initial AIDS crisis, I've always had an ingrained belief that outside of a committed monogamous relationship, unprotected sex is never an option. Period. To see someone glamorizing it seems incredibly reckless.
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Straight Christians saddleback to "preserve their virginity", unsafe homos brownback. Gays in committed relationships who get tested and are aware of their status as far as STIs might bareback... Gay guys who just sleep around without using condoms brownback.
Barebacking has more of a connotation of just being natural and free (bare) - brownbacking sounds... a bit more gross.
Barebacking has more of a connotation of just being natural and free (bare) - brownbacking sounds... a bit more gross.
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I was appalled at the opinions expressed in the POZ article. That bloke is pretending to be all spiritual about the fact that he is a selfish slut.
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And for the record:
Unprotected anal sex with your DP involves just as much actual shit as anonymous unprotected anal sex.
And for the record:
Unprotected anal sex with your DP involves just as much actual shit as anonymous unprotected anal sex.
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from "The Advocate"
Journalist Dan Savage avoided a possible six-year prison sentence by pleading guilty to voter fraud charges November 7. The charges stem from an incident last year, when Savage, a Washington State resident, infiltrated the presidential campaign of antigay GOP candidate Gary Bauer and then cast a ballot during the Iowa caucus. Savage, a columnist for Out magazine, wrote an article for the online magazine Salon recounting how he had faked his way into Bauer's office to protest his antigay platform. In the article he also said he had licked doorknobs and toilet seats at campaign headquarters, hoping to give Bauer a bout of the flu. After pleading guilty, Savage was sentenced to a year's probation, 50 hours of community service, and a $750 fine.
Journalist Dan Savage avoided a possible six-year prison sentence by pleading guilty to voter fraud charges November 7. The charges stem from an incident last year, when Savage, a Washington State resident, infiltrated the presidential campaign of antigay GOP candidate Gary Bauer and then cast a ballot during the Iowa caucus. Savage, a columnist for Out magazine, wrote an article for the online magazine Salon recounting how he had faked his way into Bauer's office to protest his antigay platform. In the article he also said he had licked doorknobs and toilet seats at campaign headquarters, hoping to give Bauer a bout of the flu. After pleading guilty, Savage was sentenced to a year's probation, 50 hours of community service, and a $750 fine.
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@13 Are you celebrating the 9th Anniversary, or are you just really slow? I have a feeling it's both.
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I'd like to propose that brownbacking be amended to mean more than just unsafe, unprotected anal sex with multiple partners... but (and this is gross) unprotected anal sex with someone who specifically has faeces in hir rectum such that anal sex will produce copious amounts of santorum, and, well, actual poo mess.
Ugh. Gross.
Nasty nasty gross little brownbackers! YeeeUCK!
Ugh. Gross.
Nasty nasty gross little brownbackers! YeeeUCK!
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Motion to rename the acquisition/transmission of AIDS as "Franked" as in "that guy I was Brownbacking Franked me"
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Thanks, Dan...anything to keep that nut job from ruining the good things in Kansas (sure there are good things in Kansas! Lawrence! Wheat! Bison! Amelia Earhart's birthplace!) scores one for justice!
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Barebacking being the action of engaging in unprotected anal sex, brownbacking should probably be the action of wiping one's cock onto their back when finished so that the santorum is left on the receptive partner's back.
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Uh, Dan, you're so good to quote Urban Dictionary for Stupak (nice work, that was lulz), but I've always known what you define as "brownbacking" as "barebacking". UD voters apparently agree:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…
versus
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…
It's time for you to get — ahem — atop that and bring "Brownback" to the kind of urban etymology good it so deserves.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…
versus
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…
It's time for you to get — ahem — atop that and bring "Brownback" to the kind of urban etymology good it so deserves.
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@ 15 yeah - what you said, if you hadn't I would have. Brownbacking needs a more graphic, brown-related meaning; not less risky, more icky.
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So, rather than looking into the man's ideology, or researching his potential policies, you take the word of an anonymous commenter and endeavor to slander the man? You're a champ, dan.
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Sam Brownback is a progressive, rational person, who fights for those who are unable to fight for themselves, and has lead the charge on Healthcare Reform, Civil Rights, Science Funding, and other grave injustices in the world.
I'm surprised you didn't know that, Dan. If you had looked into the man's ideology, and researched his potential policies, I'm sure you would have found all this information.
I'm surprised you didn't know that, Dan. If you had looked into the man's ideology, and researched his potential policies, I'm sure you would have found all this information.
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@20 Dude, that's part of his point: barebacking sounds sexy while brownbacking sounds gross! Anyway, I came in here to point out the UrbanDictionary entry for brownbacker and see if we can't get it some love!
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