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In online message boards like 4chan over the 2010s, cuck slang developed racist and misogynistic undertones. Cuck porn describes a genre of pornography featuring white husbands watching their wives have sex with Black men. The implication? This guy is so weak he can't do anything to stop her and so submissive he even observes the act.

While it's unclear exactly who coined it and when, cuck eventually blended with conservative, making cuckservative. The term first appeared on X (formerly Twitter) in 2010, when it was used as a hashtag. This spread among white nationalists online as they used cuckservative against conservative politicians who they felt were too sympathetic or accommodating to mainstream, inclusive, and pro-minority policies.

Cuck saw its day though during the 2016 US presidential election. In August 2015, The New York Times reported that the hashtag "#cuckservative" peaked during the GOP debates, when many social-media users slammed Republican candidates who had "veered too far to the left." By 2016, internet users were commonly shortening cuckservative back to cuck because who doesn't like to abbreviate. Even members of the American Dialect Society recognized the words, nominating them for their 2016 Word of the Year in a category called "WTF."

Why Angry White Men Love Calling People "Cucks" Dana Schwartz at GQ.com

The problematic history of the alt-right's favorite new insult.

...Its literal meaning references a submissive man sexually cuckolded by a woman. Now, it is a catch-all among the alt-right, in the dark corners of the internet where #feminismisacancer hashtags are a badge of pride and the real enemy is PC culture, where "cuck" has become shorthand for any perceived weakness, or rather, perceived reluctance to exploit strength.

..."cuck" was added to Urban Dictionary in 2007. Any more exact tracing of its origins is lost in the dense knot of the internet and the speed with which its population seized upon an insult to emasculate others.

The word gained political potency during the 2016 election in the portmanteau "cuckservative" (cuck + conservative) used to imply that the mainstream conservatives of the Jeb Bush variety are weak and effeminate. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is not a cuckservative. He says what he wants and doesn't care if it's offensive. In reference to Trump's comments about Megyn Kelly having "blood coming out of her wherever," radio host Rush Limbaugh snarked, "If Trump were your average, ordinary, cuckolded Republican, he would have apologized by now."

But Donald Trump doesn't apologize. He went on to win the Republican presidential nomination as Jeb Bush, the one-time favorite, was irrevocably set back by a simple insult from Trump delivered with an invisible wink: "low-energy."

Since The Donald bested the field of cuckservatives with his manly virility and full head of hair, those who couldn't see a good insult go to waste have continued to use it in its shortened form—cuck—which applies first to anyone supporting Hillary, but also anyone who would challenge Donald Trump on his spelling, his logic, or his facts.

Here's What the Manosphere' Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry Brooke Scelza at Scientific American

In online forums the term "cuck" has become synonymous with "sucker" and "loser." But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science

In the "manosphere," an online world of angry young men, those who have been "red-pilled," in a nod to the film The Matrix, have purportedly been awakened to the truth about gender and sexual politics. At its core is the notion that men do not actually have systemic privilege; they are instead at the whims of women, who will take advantage of them unless they assert their dominance. In their worldview, the "cuck" is a disenfranchised victim of hyperfeminist power.

Cuck: The Weird History of a Disgusting Word You're Going to be Hearing a Lot More Paul B. Sturtevant at publicmedievalist.com (2016)

...A vile new slur has taken root in American politics. If you read internet comments sections, the political subsections of Reddit, or are politically active on Twitter, you may have encountered it: "cuck". The rise of Trump and the mainstreaming of the American alt-right fringes has injected this bizarre, antiquated word into the political discourse (along with a derivative portmanteau "cuckservative"). It is crucial for us to understand the coded language used by hate groups—and now those in the halls of power—to attack those around them in case you encounter it in the wild: on the street, in your classrooms, by your Breitbart-reading uncle, or on TV.

Rising from relative obscurity, "cuck" and its derivatives have become a favorite way for alt-righters to insult anyone who does not fall in line with their ultra-reactionary ideologies. But before it became a staple on the neo-Nazi edges of 4chan, Reddit and the comments sections of Breitbart, it was a medieval word, conveying a very medieval idea.

...The word cuckold was perfect for the alt-right. Its meaning is tantalizingly filthy, its sound abrasive, and its relative obscurity fits well in a world where language is coded and cryptic (both to establish the in-group from the out and as a method of obfuscation). They took the word, shortened it to cuck (easier to tweet), and deployed it as their insult du jour. Anti-feminists steeped in the toxic masculinities of Reddit's /r/RedPill, 4chan's /pol/, or GamerGate used it to shame the men they despised.

What does 'cuck' mean and why are you being called one? Justin Myers at gq-magazine.co.uk

...Ah, the alt-right — the gleaming, bloodless rebrand of old-school hatred like misogyny, racism, fascism, sexism, homophobia and beyond. They're the self-appointed opponents of the so-called "metropolitan liberal elite" we hear about almost as much. We know the drill, we've seen this played out across the political scene in one way or another since time immemorial; the only difference is the volume of what each is saying and who's listening. But it's really come to the fore in recent years, thanks to an increasingly opinion-reliant media, the never-ending two-way thirst of social media and the apparent death of truth.

Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump have been the jewels in a crown of wilful misunderstanding, dog-whistle politics, toxic views masquerading as "genuine concerns", of scare tactics, of a feeling that those who who were once in control — usually through nefarious or unjust means, or a luck of the draw they've exploited — are no longer.

...So what kind of guy is actually calling you a cuck? Well, this person could also be a woman, of course, as plenty do buy into this idea, even though the movement itself seems to have scant regard for them, but your average cuck-caller will tick a few of the following boxes.

1) Believes that immigrants are coming over here and taking our jobs. When pressed to say which jobs in particular are being swallowed up non-nationals, he will stutter and say he “read in the Mail about a Polish teacher in Kettering once, shut up you cuck".

2) Talks a lot about “taking back control” for people just like him. He isn't sure who has control right now that isn't actually like him — given that most politicians are male and white — or what he would do with this control once he gets it, but if you don't want control you are a cuck.

3) Is embittered about a horrible female boss he had years ago. That he's had 10 make bosses who were equally mean to him is of no consequence –—they were man and that's just how it goes when men are being men. Big manly men behaving like power-hungry psychos in the workplace is absolutely fine, but a woman asking wearily if you can please reply to her email because the deadline is almost up is a controlling bitch who doesn't know what she's talking about.

4) Goes on dates and thinks the woman talks too much, despite the fact he has given nothing but monosyllabic answers to her questions and has asked none of his own. After the thirteenth awkward silence, the woman gives up trying to fill dead air and says she's ordering a taxi. The man will then ask if he can come home with her.

5) Has a firmly anti-immigration stance which temporarily evaporates when he needs batteries for his children's toys on Christmas Day and the only place open is the corner shop — owned by a Pakistani couple who know his name though he's never bothered to ask theirs.

6) Has never told anyone in his family he loves them because it's "sissy and sentimental" but cries openly when his favourite team loses.

Take heart when someone tries to shut you down and call you a cuck. While it's frustrating that they won't hear you and are, usually, encouraging other people just like them to pile on to you to make you feel inadequate or emasculated, you aren't ever going to change their minds and it would be a waste of time to try.

The Long, Violent Literary History of Calling Someone a "Cuck" Eliott Grover at insidehook.com (2020)

..."The Miller's Tale" is one of the bawdier stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales. It is an example of a fabliaux, a type of story characterized by sexual and scatalogical humor. With several fart jokes and what might be the first canonical ass-to-mouth scene, it lives up to the genre. It also offers a satirical yet realistic take on the fear that consumed many medieval husbands.

Cuck—the linguistic backstory to the alt-right's favourite insult Sarah Ogilvie at Prospect (2023)

...Cuck first gained newfound popularity among incels and others during Gamergate, an online hate campaign in 2014 that targeted female gamers and those advocating for greater diversity within gaming culture. Any man who spoke out against the doxing and rape threats that female gamers received was labelled a cuck, someone who capitulates to a woman.

Since then, the word has become a favoured expression among American white nationalists, who use it to insult "cuckservatives", conservative politicians considered too moderate. Liberal Republicans, who some call "libtards", are said to be "cucked" by the left. A "beta cuck" is the opposite of an admired "alpha male"

Source and popularity of the recent slang word "cuck" stackexchange.com(ca 2017).