We were probably the last generation that grew up in a time when the term "gangbangin" meant something else
Posted by Natural_Ad_1717@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 130 comments
AintNobody-@reddit
Are we the peak "hur hur hur you said a sex word" generation or has that just amplified as the years have gone on?
Stop_Already@reddit
I blame Bevis and butthead and Wayne’s world.
Dark-Empath-@reddit
Gangbanging (in the Gangsta sense) was something I heard in later years as an American term. It had always had the more x-rated meaning here long before that. I just assumed it was one of those phrases / words that had a different meaning across the pond, like “Fanny” 😄
Ann_Amalie@reddit
I was so unreasonably delighted when I learned the international truths of “fanny” and “pussy.” But being from the American south, your fanny is your ass. That’s why a belt bag is/was called a fannypack 🤭 In general Ive personally always hated the word pussy though, whether as a description of female anatomy, as an insult to someone’s masculinity, describing a type of bow on clothing, or as a synonym for cat.
Dark-Empath-@reddit
Yeah defo was always a “bum bag” here, but guess that has connotations of being a tramp or vagrant in the US too? We truly are a people divided by the same language.
PS. I remember similar delight hearing an American for the first time describing how they were kicked “in the fanny”, and the look of confusion at the reaction that ensued. 😄
Ann_Amalie@reddit
I don’t remember the hobo connection, but it makes total sense, and it may have just been outside my awareness.
But I forgot to mention that “Fannie/Fanny” is also a women’s name! Or rather nickname for Francine or Frances. At least it used to be more common. I haven’t ever met one in the wild that wasn’t an elder lady.
ChickenBossChiefsFan@reddit
I work with an older Zoomer and she started wearing a belt bag, I was like, “When did fanny packs make a comeback?”
Apparently fanny packs are still uncool, but belt bags are in 🙄
Ann_Amalie@reddit
😂 I love the “evolution” of fashion! Like in the 90’s I distinctly remember arguing with my mom that, “these aren’t bell bottoms, they’re flares!” Yeah, soooo different!
NotMuchNotMuch@reddit
Me too! Like "rooting," I always struggled to hear it used on tv if my parents were in the room as those words only had sexual connotations to me, but clearly had g rated meanings on US tv!
bowties4lyfe@reddit
What sexual connotation does the word "rooting" have? I'm from the US and have heard it used that way before
woeful_haichi@reddit
It's Australian slang for having sex.
tcpukl@reddit
Does the bang refer to guns? That explains why it's an American term. I've never heard of it non sexual until this thread. But then I didn't grow up with gun crime.
brieflifetime@reddit
Gangbang meant a bunch of men raping a woman long before it took on additional meanings related to gang members. It evolved from the rape meaning.
tcpukl@reddit
Like I say I've never even heard of the gang version before today.
Cool_Dark_Place@reddit
Not so much, anymore. The term "banging" mostly refers to just fighting, nowadays.
tcpukl@reddit
Yeah but 20 years ago.
Cool_Dark_Place@reddit
I'd say early-mid '00s, it was starting to loose its "gun" reference, and was referring to fighting in general. But back in the '90s, it usually implied a gun.
MasterDave@reddit
what if it never was a reference to guns and most gangsters enjoyed promiscuous sex with anyone they could stick it in?
I'm pretty sure if you'll examine what noted gangster P Diddy sang about and then was caught doing, you might understand that it's never been about violence to anything except someone's genitals.
Dark-Empath-@reddit
In a ….”Mum, Dad, why is that man &woman on telly fighting with each other?….” Sort of way?
vecsta02@reddit
I was writing a story for my Year 9 English class (so this would be around 1992) about gangs and shooting - so edgy! I thought I was so clever for titling it 'Gang Bang' - because bang is the noise guns make, right?
My teacher had a quiet word with me to make sure I knew - or maybe preferably didn't know - what the phrase meant.
Glitter_is_my_game@reddit
If it makes you feel any better, my sister and I once watched Stand By Me on a Saturday night and started calling each other pussies...at Sunday School the next morning. My mom made us look up the word in the dictionary. Turns out it wasn't just another word for a wuss.
Aristophat@reddit
Isn’t “wuss” shortened for wussy, which is indeed rhyming slang for pussy, with the rhyme introduced to soften it, the same, effect-wise, as heck vs hell?
Ratatoski@reddit
Explaining the sexual double meanings of things to kids is rather eye opening as to how much innuendo there really is.
SCorpus10732@reddit
We had an English teacher who didn't like the word "sucks" and constantly reminded us that it was a reference to fellatio. Her attempts to change our usage of the word were ineffective.
Ratatoski@reddit
Man that sucks.
Potato-Engineer@reddit
I read a comment somewhere on Reddit where a parent disallowed "sucks", but allowed "blows". It kinda blows goats.
Lil_ah_stadium@reddit
Sounds like an interesting book. Published the story anywhere?
vecsta02@reddit
Banned in 29 countries!
GarminTamzarian@reddit
I always wondered why my children's book about the farmyard adventures of a large black rooster never managed to find a publisher.
CayseyBee@reddit
My daughter keeps referring to things as raw dogging and I’m like no…no, no, no… and she’s like what?
fidgetypenguin123@reddit
When and why did it even change? And why is it also used by people that should know better about it because either they themselves knew back in the day or should be old enough to have found out by now? Why are we accepting this 😅
CayseyBee@reddit
Language evolves 🤷♀️
fidgetypenguin123@reddit
Sure but when it meant unprotected sex like not long ago at all and then suddenly it changes to something else where people are going around saying it constantly that's a bit more than language evolves lol. I'm also talking about people older than kids using it when they should know what it meant again in very recent times. Aren't people our age using it in viral videos now too? They need to have their Xennial cards taken.
Aristophat@reddit
It’s because kids hear parents using it then ask their ask their parents about it and the parents don’t want to explain what it actually means, so they say “it means winging it,” and that’s what the kid grows up thinking it means.
chekhovsdickpic@reddit
It was originally used correctly as a joke - like a commenter above says, using “rawdogging the air” to mean going in a crowded place without a mask. That makes sense, you’re not using protection.
But the kiddies latched onto it to mean “winging it,” i guess, and then it evolved into enjoying a drink or meal plain with no condiments or sweetener, and i guess just going out in public without like makeup or plans? Idk. Slang is weird.
whahaaa@reddit
you mean they actually thought it was originally referring to a literal hotdog with no ketchup or mustard?
Aristophat@reddit
Raw means uncooked.
fidgetypenguin123@reddit
Is it just kids though? People millennial and up I think have even put it in videos and that's where I'm like "wtf are they thinking when they should know what it meant". Kids I get but then once they find out, how can they want to keep saying it lol. As a teen/young adult I would have been grossed out saying a term my parents used in that way 😅
mottledmussel@reddit
This sort of stuff tends to change quickly. When we were kids, our parents generation got all bent out of shape over saying something "sucks" or calling someone a "prick".
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
My mom would get so mad when I said things sucked.
brieflifetime@reddit
You should definitely tell her what that term means. She won't use it in front of you EVER again. Lol
CayseyBee@reddit
I have…she does…now I think she just likes triggering me lol
Indubitalist@reddit
Best use I ever saw of the term was about people in crowded places during Covid without a mask “raw-dogging the air.”
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
This I can get behind. Because yeah. THAT makes sense. The others are too weird.
kiipii@reddit
We discussed rawdogging in a work setting about mental health...
spidereater@reddit
Was it about sleep? My wife talks about “raw dogging sleep” and I’m just like.. no.
kiipii@reddit
Flying. US-Asia flight without music/reading/movies...terrifying.
Fast-Watch-5004@reddit
Wasn’t that where the recent trend started though? Now it’s used for all kinds of stupid stuff like “I’m rawdogging this coffee” and shit
kiipii@reddit
That's what the internet tells me. It was news to me.
LemurCat04@reddit
Nope, no thank you. I do not want to be left alone with my thoughts for that much time. Hence why I carry three sets of backup earbuds.
SneedyK@reddit
I used rawdogging to explain a switch on an effects pedal
1 is GE. That means germanium diode
2 is SE. that means silicon diode
3 is XX. No diodes, just rawdogging it with transistors (louder)
takisara@reddit
Oh yeah, like im raw dogging my oats.....ummm, can you just stop saying the word "raw" altogether please, thank you.
GarminTamzarian@reddit
So she's left with just "dogging"?
takisara@reddit
True....yeah thats no good either. Just eat your oatmeal dammit!!
GarminTamzarian@reddit
Inc-Roid@reddit
Or you'll get diabeetus
GarminTamzarian@reddit
LeakyAssFire@reddit
I know a kid like this. He stopped saying it once I explained what it meant and how he was the result of raw dogging.
ItaDapiza@reddit
😂😂😂😭😭😭
CayseyBee@reddit
😆
ItaDapiza@reddit
This is the one that I die inside at. I keep seeing kids talking about raw dogging everything and I get a little secondhand embarrassment each time.
Albuwhatwhat@reddit
NooStringsAttached@reddit
lol omg
Runinbearass@reddit
Theres always time for lubricant
greendemon42@reddit
A gangbang has always meant an orgy. There's a line about it in Grease.
brieflifetime@reddit
Thank you 😂
aaaaaaaaaanditsgone@reddit
How did i miss that
greendemon42@reddit
You were probably too young when you watched it.
Eh-I@reddit
The quality has certainly gone down since OPs mom started franchising. 😉
Cael_NaMaor@reddit
Being a gangbanger meant gangster... not sure I heard anyone say I'm going to do some gangbangin' But I could see it.
Being in a gang bang, has as far as I know, always meant everyon bangs the same person, not always with their permission, usually a couple at a time with others watching. Probably stems from the two ways to join a gang... either by blood (kill for it) or rape (f*ked for it).
Running a train, means about the same, but the sex can be private from person to person.
aaaaaaaaaanditsgone@reddit
DAE remember when peaches were not butts?
Natural_Ad_1717@reddit (OP)
And eggplants were something you'd put in your mouth. Oh wait
PissedPieGuy@reddit
“IT WAS WHEN I WAS BANGIN!”
buttercreamordeath@reddit
I lived in a shitty gang area.
Gang banging was both the shitty hang out time gangs did and the gang banging of girls on their cars.
Example 1: Thugs hanging out around their cars doing illegal stuff = gang banging
Example 2: group of the same thugs having sex with one or two girls on their cars = gang banging.
Getting jumped into the gang goes into example 1. Getting fucked into the gang, that's example 2.
Either way, my ass was not roaming around late when they were gathered on their corners.
sofa-king-loud@reddit
Isnt gang-banging when everyone is having sex with someone and then they shoot them after.
Expensive-Day-3551@reddit
Wait, what does it mean now?
MasterDave@reddit
same thing as it used to mean, fuckin.
Expensive-Day-3551@reddit
Ok I thought it was just one more thing I haven’t kept up with
Ricky_Rollin@reddit
I’m reminded of George Costanza “that’s what it was when I was bangin’”!! When asked to show a gang their gang-sign to avoid a beat down.
MihalysRevenge@reddit
Zq1 q d 2 ²
Nadathug@reddit
Grew up in the 90s. “Gangbangin” meant being a gangster.
“A gangbang” was called “running a train” 🤣
waywardviking208@reddit
Omg you mean Quad City Dj’s famous song “cmon ride that train” was about sex?? 🍆❓. I guess it is a choo choo ride. Smh
seiggy@reddit
Maybe? I’m getting mixed messages about bringing the family along.
join-the-line@reddit
Dudes a freak, end of story 😉
mrblazed23@reddit
It ain’t my issue if two sisters get laid at the same time. That’s their weird family problems. I’m just conducting this here train
BEniceBAGECKA@reddit
Toot toot. 🚂
Slim_Margins1999@reddit
No kink shaming friend
BlackshirtDefense@reddit
I mean, it was written by four cities' worth of DJs. Pretty big train.
waywardviking208@reddit
Due to the different diet in many cities the many “samples” provided would make the Trains “Caboose” Glazed and Confused
averydangerousday@reddit
Alright alright alright 😏
COMMANDO_MARINE@reddit
I imagine there's a bunch of guys who liked to sag their pants, revealing their ass and claiming to be gangbangers who are feeling a little silly right now. Anyway, I'm off to give my wife a facial for her birthday because she said it's very good for her skin and Mario at the clinic is apparently just wonderful and gives the best facials according to her so I'm more than happy to ensure she gets an intensive facial for her special day.
nitrot150@reddit
Don’t forget to gift her with a nice pearl necklace too. They look so elegant
justtalkincrap@reddit
Eiffel tower, wobbly H, etc....
waywardviking208@reddit
Don’t forget the Shishkabob
deowolf@reddit
Chinese Fingercuffs
actualelainebenes@reddit
The Rotisserie
typically_wrong@reddit
Spitroast
LtLemur@reddit
That mini-doc title “Bangin’ in Little Rock” would be a bit confusing today.
FCStien@reddit
You should have seen my kids' eyes when I described someone as a retired gangbanger.
mcjon77@reddit
I remember my freshman year English at my Catholic high School, when my Virgin English teacher (yes, she made sure to let us know that she was still a virgin) complained about how kids in gangs today are called gangbangers when that's a term really about group sex. She was somehow offended by this.
As God is my witness, this actually happened.
This would have been in the 1991 to 1992 school year. That was quite possibly the most sexually frustrated woman I had ever met in my entire life.
rojoshow13@reddit
A kid at school last year told my son that they were going to hang bang him. And I told him that I wasn't sure if they were going to just beat him up, or rape him, but neither one sounded good.
EidolonRook@reddit
To be fair, “daddy” doesn’t mean the same thing either.
Grantypants80@reddit
Growing up in the UK, it always meant the sexual reference. I only heard it used in the “gangster” sense when I moved to Los Angeles and was veeeery confused by the casual usage..
Dogrel@reddit
Now you know how our grandparents felt when we talked about “boogieing”
Weirdassmustache@reddit
themosttoast603@reddit
This is the correct answer
trustymrpoopypants@reddit
Awe man, are we no longer slangin' and gang bangin' ?
MarcelinosPrizFightr@reddit
No, we are.
Life-Finding5331@reddit
Rippin' and runnin' too?
impurehalo@reddit
Gangbang meant orgy. Gangbanger meant someone in a gang.
Never heard anyone use the term gangbanging until just now.
Stonk_Lord86@reddit
I’m here for the gang bang…
Natural_Ad_1717@reddit (OP)
Old School came out in 2003 - we were probably becoming aware of the change in 2003.
NFL_MVP_Kevin_White@reddit
Just made me think that the timing of an Old School reference right now would be equivalent to dropping a quote from Fast Times at Ridgemont High on your way to see Old School.
No shirt, no shoes, no dice
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
actualelainebenes@reddit
Miserable_Badger_255@reddit
cellrdoor2@reddit
My husband is not a native English speaker and about five years ago it came to my attention that he was using the phrase “going like gang bangers” (he meant gang busters) in polite business conversation. I couldn’t stop laughing and he was mortified that no one at work had told him.
Albuwhatwhat@reddit
Omg they must have thought he was the raunchiest motherfucker around.
Dreamscape83@reddit
He really established himself as the alpha in that room, I bet.
GarminTamzarian@reddit
Some idioms just don't survive translation.
jackfaire@reddit
I mean it had two different meanings when we were kids. Though oddly both were about fucking someone up.
JFull0305@reddit
West side gang banging
frankreynoldsrumham@reddit
😅
post_obamacore@reddit
I don't think I've ever heard someone say, "gangbanging" in a criminal context that wasn't a wildly out of touch elderly white person.
YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit
In the immortal words of Mc Eiht - If you're from Compton, you either sell dope or gangbang
So it's pretty clear that you weren't brought up on West Coast gangster shit
Calculusshitteru@reddit
Yeah same. I lived in a neighborhood with gang activity in the early 90s, and I usually heard young people calling them gang members, gangstas, locs, Gs, OGs, etc.
ditto_3050@reddit
This made me laugh. “Goood one”
VectorJones@reddit
I heard it as a sex term first, back when I watched History of the World Part 1 some time in the mid 80s. I could never quite accept it as a reference to gang violence after that. It's always produced images of Mel Brooks in pantaloons jumping on top of a pile of horny dudes.
RhubarbGoldberg@reddit
Are we doing gangam style again? What's happening? Huh?
Lazy_Match724@reddit
I am not gang. I do not gangbang.