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You Can Touch My Junk, but Nothing Else
American Thinker ^ | November 24, 2010 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 11/24/2010 8:37:03 AM PST by Paladins Prayer

Now that "Don't touch my junk!" has become a rallying cry, I must ask a question: What's with this youth-culture tendency to refer to male genitalia as "junk"?

Since I keep my nose to the ground, I noticed this slang innovation long before John Tyner drew his line in the sand; it seems to be a phenomenon of the last five years or so. And it's one I'd like to put on the junk heap.

If I have any junk, it won't be on my body, and it will probably end up in the trash bin. And if the TSA wants to rummage through it, hey, be my guest. It's said that you can tell a lot about a person by examining his refuse. So you can touch my junk -- but let's be a bit more careful when we lay our hands on the language, shall we?

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KEYWORDS: groping; patdowns; security; tsa; tsapervs
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This author makes a good point about our anti-male environment.
1 posted on 11/24/2010 8:37:09 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
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Eh ... I don’t think it is anti-male. Its just slang. It may be a bit self-depricating ... but there are quite a few less-than-flattering slang terms for the female genetalia as well.

Then again, I’m not much for the feminist, Vagina Monologue, “love your junk”-thing either. Many people would do well not to have quite as much self-esteem ... both genitally and non-genitally related.

SnakeDoc


2 posted on 11/24/2010 8:47:33 AM PST by SnakeDoctor (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum -- If you wish for peace, prepare for war.)
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Because dumbass rappers found that “junk” rhymes with “trunk” as in derrier. They refer to black women who traditionally have a larger bottom than others. They like large bottoms.


3 posted on 11/24/2010 8:48:38 AM PST by albie
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If I have any junk, it won't be on my body, and it will probably end up in the trash bin.

I have a special drawer for junk.

4 posted on 11/24/2010 8:50:34 AM PST by SouthTexas (WE are the Wave)
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That’s not it. Some young in the Black or Hispanic community refer to a woman’s big saddle butt as “junk in her trunk”. I began hearing this term at least 6-7 years ago.


5 posted on 11/24/2010 8:51:43 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

In case some don’t read the whole article, I want to call your attention to this paragraph later in the article.

“Given the above, is it mere coincidence that this anti-male age sees a phenomenon whereby that which symbolizes manhood, at least physically, has come to be called “junk”? And what might we conclude about this anti-male environment’s psychological effect on recent generations of boys and young men when they will readily refer to that symbol of their manhood (in fact, a fellow’s privates are sometimes called “his manhood”) with a demeaning term? My self-image has never been so bad that I wanted to characterize part of my body as garbage.”

I think it’s a very good point.


6 posted on 11/24/2010 8:51:53 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
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I heard the saying “junk in her trunk” back in the mid 1990’s.


7 posted on 11/24/2010 8:56:34 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

If the point were correct, then you’d expect the “junk” phrase to be highly popular among whiny, anti-male or effeminate left-wingers and others who generally denigrate males. It’s not. It’s sort of an athletic/hip-hop/young male slang more associate with being over-sexed than under-sexed. Reading anything more into it than just the latest in a long list of slang for male genitalia is wrong.


8 posted on 11/24/2010 9:11:27 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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Quit making up words, and stay off my lawn, dang kids.


9 posted on 11/24/2010 9:40:38 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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Because dumbass rappers found that “junk” rhymes with “trunk” as in derrier. They refer to black women who traditionally have a larger bottom than others. They like large bottoms.

"My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon!"


10 posted on 11/24/2010 9:52:45 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (NASA? Muslims? Muslims will want to go to the moon only when Israel sets up shop there.)
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“My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hon!”

I have an affinity for large derrieres, and I am incapable of speaking falsely...


11 posted on 11/24/2010 10:03:48 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Attn. GOP: Deliver the goods, or we'll do to you what we did to the Dems!)
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Can any male relatives deny?


12 posted on 11/24/2010 10:15:19 AM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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Didn’t everyone get the memo - it’s cool to sound as if you’re uneducated and from the ghetto?


13 posted on 11/24/2010 10:18:26 AM PST by MayfairFly ("Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty.")
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I think it’s a very good point.

I first heard it from a couple of DJs on WNEW in the late 90s as they were using Euphamisms to avoid FCC fines. It was nothing more or less than a way to say COCK

14 posted on 11/24/2010 10:20:05 AM PST by Malsua
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Are you sure it isn’t “junque”?


15 posted on 11/24/2010 10:22:39 AM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Raider Sam; ZirconEncrustedTweezers

...That in the event of a young female ambulating to your locale with a very small mid-section, and an orbicular derriere presented to your visage...


16 posted on 11/24/2010 1:56:25 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (NASA? Muslims? Muslims will want to go to the moon only when Israel sets up shop there.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

I just refer to it as my second chakra.


17 posted on 11/24/2010 1:59:04 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Just tell the screener if he shakes it more than twice he’s playing with it.


18 posted on 11/24/2010 1:59:23 PM PST by csmusaret (Q: How do they say incompetent failure in Kenya? A: Barack Obama)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I wish I had a picture of a slinky


19 posted on 11/24/2010 2:42:12 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; ZirconEncrustedTweezers; Raider Sam; Joe 6-pack
Perhaps y'all remember THIS rather epic classic of days gone by...
20 posted on 11/25/2010 2:51:57 PM PST by Don W (I keep some folks' numbers in my 'phone just so I know NOT to answer when they call...)
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