/lit/ - Literature

>>8063645
I do think a dictionary is a useful standard, and prevents words from continually decaying into hollow shells which are continually emptied of meaning and stuffed with new meaning, faster than people are able to grapple with and get used to them.

It also creates countless sub-arguments about what a word means unless you have precise, official definitions to go off of.

I suppose dictionaries are just too much big-government for sergeant ItMeansWhatIWant to handle.

I agree with your Schopenhauer quote. I just really am confused as to how we got here, because the word cuckold has nothing to do with rape consent unless you vastly inflate its original meaning to encompass new territories of thought.

It literally just means a guy who is okay with his wife having *consensual* sex with other men. People who fear emasculation, STDs, humiliation, or being left by their spouse for superior partners tend to be confused and or disgusted by the "cuckold" as He is defined here.

But nowhere have I heard of a man consenting to the rape of his wife, unless he simply hated her.

Pic related, it's the sort of punishment Schopenhauer's talking about in that quote.