If they remade the rifleman...one thing that would have to go is the sodbuster insult. These days sodbuster can be used as urban slang meaning male homosexual. It would not be politically correct to have Lucas boy gunning someone down five minutes after they called him a sodbuster(ie. male homosexual).
shareIt's sad how a normal term or phrase gets a bad rap (as you so aptly pointed out). Still I wouldn't want them to stop using the term "sodbuster". It was a real term for that era and you want shows\movies to be realistic to their time. I feel quite sure most viewers would not make the connection to a filthy, unnatural sex act.
shareI make a conscious effort to maintain a healthy ignorance of the latest slang, pop culture, celebrities, etc. I would like to think I am not the only one that did not know and still don't care, that another word was hijacked by folks I don't care a damn about.
share... sodbuster can be used as urban slang meaning male homosexual.Is the "sod" part of it short for Sodomite?
The PC people need to come out with a "not allowed" publication. Normal people can't follow all the terms that suddenly aren't allowed. And apparently such a publication needs to be modified daily.
shareIf they remade the rifleman...one thing that would have to go is the sodbuster insult. These days sodbuster can be used as urban slang meaning male homosexual. It would not be politically correct to have Lucas boy gunning someone down five minutes after they called him a sodbuster(ie. male homosexual).
How the hell did they come up with that?
A term that amuses me, because it has gone the other direction is corn holing. Corn holing used to mean gay anal sex (dates back to the 1940s). Now it's become a game throwing a bag, filled with corn kennels, into a target with a hole in the middle of it. The first time I ever heard of "Corn hole Tournament" can you imagine what images when through my head? I also wondered how a gay anal sex tournament could be legal, let alone advertised on the radio.
I don't like the current trend of using modern language. Turns the whole thing into a farce. Why set it in 1880 then use modern dialog? Just because you like horses?
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If they remade the rifleman...one thing that would have to go is the sodbuster insult. These days sodbuster can be used as urban slang meaning male homosexual. It would not be politically correct to have Lucas boy gunning someone down five minutes after they called him a sodbuster(ie. male homosexual).
The hell with political korrectness, another term for Newsspeak. I'm sick of it and the apologetic attitudes people try to impose.
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