# Casual use of the term "cock blocked" is fairly offensive **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562 "2008-09-21T17:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/21 "2008-09-21T19:43:26Z")
> [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](#): > > Isn’t that literally when you kick a lady in the gooch? Gooch is guy cooch, the area between balls and a-hole. Girls don’t have one, by definition. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/22 "2008-09-21T19:47:42Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Gooch is guy cooch, the area between balls and a-hole. Girls don’t have one, by definition. I’ve always heard “cooch” as slang for vulva. What you’re calling “gooch” is the taint, or perineum, and both sexes have it (though it’s between vagina and anus in women, obviously), though somehow it seems people refer to male ones far more often than female ones. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/23 "2008-09-21T20:39:34Z")
I tend to agree with the o.p.: while the term might be acceptable in certain contexts (say, a frat house), its entry into standard parlance and preeminent usage is indicative of the continued dilution of the English language as a means to communicate with nuance. I can also do without “hit that,” “tramp stamp”, and college-aged white kids referring to each other as “nigga”. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/24 "2008-09-21T20:51:16Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I can also do without “hit that,” “tramp stamp”, and college-aged white kids referring to each other as “nigga”. “Nigga:” lame. “hit that:” Unoriginal. “Hit that” is the jumping-off point, not the whole phrase. “I’d hit that like I was Ike Turner.” THAT’s proper usage. “Tramp stamp” is accurate. It’s a scientific term, not slang. Slang is when you refer to a certain subset of the tramp stamp (specifically, the fake “tribal” tattoo) as “ass antlers.” ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/25 "2008-09-21T20:51:58Z")
So it occurs to me- is there a feminine equivalent? When someone ruins a girl’s chances of hooking up with (or getting/giving phone number, or whatever), “cock block” just doesn’t make sense. What should the alternative term be? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/26 "2008-09-21T21:32:02Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > I’ve always heard “cooch” as slang for vulva. What you’re calling “gooch” is the taint, or perineum, and both sexes have it (though it’s between vagina and anus in women, obviously), though somehow it seems people refer to male ones far more often than female ones. The gooch is where the vulva would be, hence guy cooch or gooch. The penis and balls and north of there, hence guys have a taint of a few inches (the gooch) and girls have a taint or perineum of ~1/2". [Brodie Bruce]We’re not talking quantum physics here. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/27 "2008-09-21T21:37:31Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > So it occurs to me- is there a feminine equivalent? When someone ruins a girl’s chances of hooking up with (or getting/giving phone number, or whatever), “cock block” just doesn’t make sense. What should the alternative term be? It still works, as long as you’re hetero. You blocked your friend from getting some cock. People do seem to like saying “cock block.” It’s a bit like “stock swap” in that **Seinfeld** episode. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/28 "2008-09-21T22:40:03Z")
I don’t think the phase is offensive. I think the fact that the woman in your group of your friends thought she cock blocked you when you were trying to help a woman into a car who was so drunk she couldn’t walk on her own is kind of creepy. Unless she thought you were trying to hit on the sober one. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/29 "2008-09-21T23:02:18Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > So it occurs to me- is there a feminine equivalent? When someone ruins a girl’s chances of hooking up with (or getting/giving phone number, or whatever), “cock block” just doesn’t make sense. What should the alternative term be? Twat-swatted? Quim-stemmed? Cooze-diffused? Uh…[_DLuxn8r-13 starts edging inconspicuously toward the exit]_… **cunt-shunted?** [_ducks real low and runs for his life_] ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/30 "2008-09-21T23:51:26Z")
[QUOTE= appleciders] So it occurs to me- is there a feminine equivalent? When someone ruins a girl’s chances of hooking up with (or getting/giving phone number, or whatever), “cock block” just doesn’t make sense. What should the alternative term be? [/QUOTE] This has been done. The proper term is cribbed from basketball defense: “boxed out.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/31 "2008-09-21T23:52:57Z")
The term’s _not_ offensive, actually cock blocking someone _is._ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/32 "2008-09-21T23:54:29Z")
I tend to agree with the OP. In fact, it’s sort of an anti-euphemism (in the same category as “pussy-whipped” or “MILF”): a vulgar, not-for-polite-company term that I’d be embarrassed to say to certain people even though I wouldn’t be embarrassed to discuss the phenomenon it names. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/33 "2008-09-22T00:05:26Z")
> [@astro](#): > > 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. I hear women say this to each other all the time, too, though. Including my friends, actually. If something stops one of my female friends from bagging the guy (or girl) she wants, we say she was cock blocked. It’s just a saying, it doesn’t have to be literal. I think it’s an expression that is perfectly applicable to a certain situation: if someone intentionally gets between you and your casual hook up, you got cock blocked. Cock blocker = not cool. And while we’re on the subject, I present my favorite (SFW) “cock block” related shirt: [perfection.](http://img.printfection.com/14/71126/d5AVP.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/34 "2008-09-22T00:09:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I tend to agree with the OP. In fact, it’s sort of an anti-euphemism (in the same category as “pussy-whipped” or “MILF”): a vulgar, not-for-polite-company term that I’d be embarrassed to say to certain people even though I wouldn’t be embarrassed to discuss the phenomenon it names. I agree with this completely. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/35 "2008-09-22T00:13:07Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > [Yep.](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cunt+punt) Another sign of the end times:( ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/36 "2008-09-22T01:01:50Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I’m beginning to suspect all of us are 16 year old boys. No, only those of us with something resembling a social life. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/37 "2008-09-22T01:12:32Z")
dick dashed would be better and I hate cock blocked. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/38 "2008-09-22T01:15:09Z")
> [@astro](#): > > mojito soaked vagina New user name? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/39 "2008-09-22T01:17:46Z")
48 hours ago, I had never heard this term. Then there was an thread in the pit. > **[Non-cock owning cock-blocking neighbor!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484322)** > > Okay, as I mentioned in a thread that disappeared over the upgrade weekend my girlfriend and I ended our relationship. It has been almost a month and it is still difficult at times. I’m getting my feet under me now and starting to think about... I know…I’m late to the party. As a matter of a universal veto, nah. There’s a place for it in the universal lexicon. Whether it’s appropriate in situation X, I wouldn’t presume to say but I don’t advocate getting rid of things because the situation didn’t fit the usage. I write this, thinking there are times when it could have been useful to me and the connotation would have been appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562/40 "2008-09-22T01:35:59Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I tend to agree with the OP. In fact, it’s sort of an anti-euphemism (in the same category as “pussy-whipped” or “MILF”): a vulgar, not-for-polite-company term that I’d be embarrassed to say to certain people even though I wouldn’t be embarrassed to discuss the phenomenon it names. Well, sure it’s vulgar. I’m confused–is the OP trying to say that this phrase should not be used, period, in casual conversation or what? I disagree with him there. In some contexts, it’s the right phrase. In others, it’s offensive. Like most language, really… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-use-of-the-term-cock-blocked-is-fairly-offensive/464562.md?page=3)