Talk:motherfucker

Can someone provide a citation for "fatherfucker"? I've heard "motherfucker" thousands of times but I don't think I've ever heard "fatherfucker". The closest I can think of is from Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, where he talks of "mother-rapers . . . father-stabbers," and then for further darkly humorous effect, "father-rapers".

If nothing turns up in the next few days, I suggest we remove the reference.

-dmh 21:19, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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04 Aug 2004 - Reference removed.

"Motherfucker"

Bobby Seale, of the Black Panther party, was at pains to explain that a motherfucker was not somebody who fucked his own mother; it was someone who fucked your mother. Given the origins of the word among African-Americans, and the long legacy of slavery, I would think that is the more likely derivation. (See "Seize the Time: the Story of the Black Panther Party" by Seale.)

                                  David F. Hutchinson   November 1, 2022 174.136.192.135 00:11, 2 November 2022 (UTC)