[A short discursion on a stranger's nethers, in two parts]
“Look on the bright side, you get your hole, you have 2 great kids, and you gt to pass of the door-knocking sales-scum to CL. Win-win, really.”
“Christ, could you refrain from referring to CL as a fucking hole? I know you think it’s jokey and cute, but it isn’t. It’s just a way to insult women.”
I.
“Getting your hole” is an idiom meaning “having sexual intercourse on a regular basis”. The hole in question could be a vagina or an anus–here, in context, it’s pretty clear that it’s a vagina. To a woman you might say “getting the length” or “getting your fill”1. So the direct meaning of the phrase, let’s say, is “having more or less unrestricted access to a vagina, subject to the ongoing approval of the person of whose body said vagina is a part”.
II.
So “hole” in this case refers specifically and solely to the vagina–i.e. to the organ, not the person. But now, look at the switcheroo happening between the two quoted comments: the second takes it as read that “hole” is referring to the person. In other words, the second commenter is speaking as if the vagina constitutes the entirety of the person’s being. Which, if I may offer a humble opinion here, is treading some pretty dodgy ontological ground, enlightened-outlook-wise.
- Though the latter is maybe a bit redolent of that musty old nonsense about passivity/receptivity and the psychosexual/social implications thereof, which let’s side-step that whole barrel of worms for now. [↩]
Note it is “your hole”. Not “access to someone else’s hole”.
Noted. Such are the vagaries of the idiom–cf. “get your fill”. Perhaps there were sinister connotations back in the day but you may rest assured they have been well and truly exorcised (ideally through the efficient means of a swift kick to the chuds).
Edit: Ho, what a handwavey excuse for a response that was. That’s what I get for writing three different things while running out of a building.
Put it this way: the way the idiom is used, “hole” is not intended as a concrete noun. Rather, it’s a colourful way to express a quantity, the same way you’d say “your five-a-day” or “your commute to work”; you don’t and can’t own those things, because they only exist in the abstract. Dig?
I’m tempted to count the amount of times I have read the word ‘hole’ in the last 10 minutes but I’m terrified of the results
Oh, you better believe there’s holes all up in here.
Also I demand you write a post about the origins of the phrase “Get ‘er bucked”.
Get ‘er bucked? Tis an epic tale that. It’s best served around a campfire though
Is that what she said? Sounds kind of like what she said.
You know, the number of times where I’ve tried to get people wound up, with no result, and then when I’m not even trying… sheesh.
You certainly made my afternoon. I’m gonna stalk you now and do detailed semantic breakdowns of all your comments. That’ll learn em.
Good luck with that. Someone once described me as a Dadaist Valley Girl. I’m still trying to figure out if that was a compliment, insult, or both. Let me know, will you?
It may not have been a compliment, but it does give you a free pass to say whatever you want. Just claim you were subverting the norms of whatever it was you were talking about. And of the medium itself. And then say something that bears no relation to anything. WIN
Ask me hole…
I see.