Not to beat a dead horse, but while
r_blackcat's post on ableist language was mostly struck through, it's prompted me to make an inquiry about something I've wondered for years. It's arguably the kind of question that belongs on a community more directly centered around issues of privilege, discrimination, etc., but since we have a bunch of etymology-
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In general, I think that English provides a wealth of insults related to the human posterior and scatalogical products thereof that are generally baggage-free. For example: Asswipe. Half-assed. Butthead. Asshole. Shitty/crappy/variants thereof. Etc. I think that references to anal sex should be avoided ("butthurt" is something that I'm trying hard to exorcise from my own vocabularly), but the human ass in general is really an excellent starting point for concocting insults.
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(And yes, I completely agree with you that anal sex shouldn't be so automatically symbolic of gay male sex, but I think that it very much still is in our current cultural climate. Which stinks. But it is what it is.)
It's not just homophobia, but there's a power issue as well. Like the way that people say "got fucked in the ass" as a metaphor for asserting power/authority/pwnage over someone, which I personally find very icky. So even aside from the issues of homophobia and heterosexism, there's all kinds of icky baggage associated with using specific references to sexual acts as a way of insulting someone, especially penetrative sexual acts.
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