USA Today on "sucks "

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:25:50 EDT, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

>What has always been interesting to me is that SUCK occurs in so many other
>expressions, including pejorative ones, in which no one ever thinks of
>fellatio--so why do they often think of the connection in the environment,
>"Yankees Suck"?

As with other heated sports rivalries, the discourse of the Yankees/Red
Sox rivalry often alludes to imagery of sexual domination/humiliation. Cf.
last year's taunt, "Who's your daddy?"


--Ben Zimmer