Both men and women seem to be using this fairly crude term with increasingly frequency lately. I really didn’t pay much attention to it until it got slapped on me the other evening.
I was the designated driver for a group of friends, and as we were leaving one venue I went to help a women carry her drunk friend to the car. The drunk friend was fairly attractive, but they were both strangers to me and I just wanted them to get to their car safely as the not so drunk one was having trouble keeping the drunk one on her feet.
As I was doing this one of the ladies in my group started calling out my name in a panicked voice so I detached from the stumbling women to see what the commotion was about. She (the shouter) apparently just wanted to be sure I was not abandoning them as the DD. When I explained what i was doing she then said “Did I cock block you? Were you going to get lucky with them? I really didn’t mean to cock block you.”
When we got in the car to go to the next bar she kept apologizing (in front of others at this point) for “cock blocking” me. I got the distinct impression she was saying it just because she liked using the term.
In retrospect I should have replied “Yes you cock blocked me you silly woman. I was just about to squeeze my swollen meaty member into the mojito soaked vagina of that cute little drunk when you swooped down like a harpy, firmly grasping the head of my throbbing penis in your gnarled claws and yanking it out of her moist tunnel. I was so close to sperminating her boozy little pussy. My cock was most surely blocked… by you!”
Honestly “cock blocked” is kind of gross. Get another term.
Or maybe your friend was acting like a jerk. You say she was drinking–maybe she got the phrase in her head and just wanted to say it over and over? Alcohol will do that to a person…
It’s offensive generally. it assumes that anytime a man approaches a woman with any level of interest his penis is waggling out in front of him like an elephant’s trunk sniffing for the entrance to her vagina.
It’s not a phrase that will make network TV any time soon, but the practice of cock-blocking is so egregious that it requires an attention-grabbing word to mark it as such.
I don’t find the phrase offensive at all. In fact, I appreciate it for its directness and clarity. It rhymes, it’s clear, and it’s catchy. It’s here to stay whether you like it or not.
I don’t know how you’re associating the term with men as walking cocks either. I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase unless there was a damn good reason.
I’m only offended by its use when it’s clear that there was no chance of the guy actually ever having sex with the woman he was pursuing, and he blames his friend for cock-blocking when obviously none occurred.
I don’t think the connotations are always as crude as the literal meaning, either: I’ve heard it used when a potential couple are in that sort of pre-relationship phase–you know, where you happen to show up at the same places and end up sitting next to each other more often than can be strictly attributed to chance. Mutual friends are supposed to be in on the game, and if they do things like take the seat next to you that everyone else was carefully leaving open until so and so shows up, or stay at the bar when everyone but the two of you have left, then they are cock-blocking. Whether it’s intentional or the result of obliviousness is the next topic of discussion. But it’s a real issue in the social interaction of groups of young people, it needs a name, and “cock-blocking” has caught on, probably because it’s catchy sounding and a little crude in a way that’s appealing to young people that date in big casual social circles.
No it doesn’t. Your friend’s use of the term does. It’s a very useful term. And it’s nothing new; my friends and I were using it over 10 years ago and I doubt it was new then.
Your friend was simply asking if she interfered with your game, and apologized in the event she did. Your friend did not know whether you were in pursuit. The term cock block is just slang for interference. I don’t see the offense.
I don’t like the word “cock”. I don’t even like it when it’s referring to a rooster, which is a damn shame because in the book I’m reading now, a rooster was beheaded on a church altar and nobody will shut up about the damn bloody cock.
It’s one of those words that just sounds harsh and aggressive. I don’t like “dick” either. Or “prick”. Willy – I like willy. How about instead of “cock blocked”, we say “willy wonked”? No? Okay then.
Well, I don’t know what happens to YOU, but this is the effect I have more often than not. I carry stick around, just to beat off the horn dogs!
:rolleyes:
She was drunk. It’s a funny phrase that rhymes. Maybe she could see how much it pissed you off and she found that funny. Seriously, how often does one hear this phrase in casual conversation?
Yeah, count me in for another “it’s just slang”. It’s not referring to the actions of said cock or of actual blocking, just that that person was acting like a drunken fool in some unspecified manner, and made you look like a fool by association in front of a member of the fairer sex.
That, on the other hand, I’ve never heard as metaphor. Isn’t that literally when you kick a lady in the gooch?