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Douche bag, or simply douche, is considered to be a pejorative term in
Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United
States. The slang usage of the term dates back to the 1960s. The
metaphor of identifying a person as a douche is intended to associate a
variety of negative qualities, specifically arrogance and malice.
I wonder if you guessed that douche-bag was introduced earlier than
"dirt-bag." Even the OED has something about douche-bag. The word
douche, with this spelling, goes back to the 18th century, but
"douche-bag" doesn't occur until the 20th and, at first, in a medical
context. For example, in a gynecological handbook for nurses, from 1908,
we have the advice to "hang the douche-bag eighteen inches above the
level of the patient's hips." By 1967, according to the OED, the term
came into its more prominent contemporary usage: "Douche bag, an
unattractive co-ed. By extension, any individual whom the speaker
desires to deprecate." By the time I made it to the university in 1970, the
language of "douche bag" was in the air, but it was almost universally
applied to males. Once again, the males take over what properly belongs
to women. Isn't that the complaint of the feminists? Well, at least we
humanists finally took over a scientific term and used it for our own noble
purposes.
Och jag hävdar fortfarande att det ej är fel, jag vet dock att det stavas "vokabulär".
