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Also, fuck Dick.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Was "dick" not a moniker for penis back then? Did they really not know...or DID they know and really leaned into it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Republican humor has always been the humor of children.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The term came to be associated with the penis through usage by men in the military around the 1880s.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_(slang)