Douche Bag ( "He's Such A ")!

We keep hearing this term around today....don't know if folks hearing "this word really acquaint a warm soothing flow of the waters like an enema."? What ya think?

I think you are right.

When someone says that, I ask if he is Faultless or Davol!

They usually don't say that around me again!!

Interesting thought because I'm not so sure many people today, especially if they are younger, even know what a douche bag is. It was only a generation ago when most women owned one and used it with some frequency. I bought one when I was in college mostly due to peer pressure because I think I was the only girl on the floor without one.

Hi Emom and all,

Just check out the Urban Dictionary and type in "douche bag" ya' get about a gazillion responces! A "douche bag" is suppose to refer to someone who just doesn't get it etc. The reference is very vague though. The comment seems to be quite well "entrenched" in the current social vernacular. I like Lisa K's take on the subject. To refer to someone as a "Douche Bag" seems to be the ultimate social disgrace these daze! "Douche Bags" should not be getting such a bad rap! If it wasn't for "Douche Bags" then "Sex" would be mighty "distasteful!!"

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highwater

To Highwater and others:

Not only did I use a douche bag when younger, but still own and use one on a fairly regular basis. It is interesting to note, however, that I never liked that expression "douche bag" and always called it my "feminine syringe" which of course is quite different than our enema bag.

I have a douche/enema bag and it gets well used. When people talk about flowing waters or just getting enemas and I ask where they get theirs and they look funny and really don't say anything. I find it funny that they start talking about this and don't finish the conversation.

I am male and I have more female friends and some will tell me that they only use the disposables and I even tell them that the bag is less money but they think it is a bother, and god forbid you say anything about an enema they get freaky. I still love them all, they are my friends

Blew me away when one of my kids (30+), used the term douche bag to describe someone as we used this frequently in the late 60's. And, as noted previously, almost every woman owned one back then.

My 17 year old called another student a douchebag in a conversation with her friend during orchestra rehearsal. The conductor just gave her a look. -- It's amazing the things my daughters tell me!

The other day my husband and I were walking through the parking lot at the mall and he pointed to a car (a Hyundai Sonata) and said something about they really improved the looks of that car over the years. I told him don't even think about it. I will not drive a car named after a douche bag!

I had to explain to him that years ago Faultless made a small travel douche bag called the Sonata. My college room mate had one. Does anybody else remember that?

Years ago when I was still working, I was on as job working with a gal who was in her late twenty's at the time. We we talking aways about what I don't remember now) but during the conversation she outright called me a douche bag. I asked her if she knew what a douche bag was, and she gave me this real funny look on her face. I explained to her that a douche bag held a couple quarts of medicated water with which you irrigated the vagina. Then after the explanation, I asked her if I was still a douche bag, to which her reply was an emphatic NO.

A young teacher in my high school lost it in class exclaiming,

"Aw! You bunch of douche bags!"

The Principal, a former football coach, just sort of chuckled. Later in a more upscale school an English teacher did the same. He resigned that day. The Principal was indeed a douche bag.

RDear chyel77177, yes I do remember them, I had one that really had only worked while someone helped you so you know I had a hard time working this bag, I bad a shy also at one time witch worked the same way and it worked well, I wish they would make them agin the shy was well biuilt and it got a good rush going in when you connected them together

"Douche kit" was what sailors called their shaving kit.

At an airport once, a fellow sailor yelled across the terminal to throw him his douche kit. The woman sitting next to me snapped her eyes toward him and stared two holes in his chest.

When I went over with his "" and explained the real meaning, he slowly turned and disappeared.

I grew up with the slang "douche bag". & I am over 45. I think the slang maybe more of an inner city term originally. I was raised in the city & heard the term quite often. From what I remember yrs ago, "douche bag" was slang for a woman that didn't act nice toward others. Either she liked being confrontational toward others,or she only thought of herself(selfishly),etc... Or she acted nasty in the presence of males just because. Sort of like calling someone a "cunt". Later the word "douche bag" seemed to grow into a word used to describe the male gender aswell. In other words for a male, "douche bag" = "dick head" or "asshole". & the word became interchangeable for both sexes over the yrs.

I also grew up with the slang "dildo". In slang terms "dildo" = "stupid". (Example: He's a f@#kin' dildo.) And it's not hard to see how that slang developed. It comes from males thinking with their penis & not with their other head(which stores the brain).

Anyway, I feel one's intention maybe a lot more hurtful than a word in and of itself. A word is just a word unless you really mean it; and make it obvious to the one you intend to slander & mean to hurt.

Johnny:

I just put two and two together. My mom used to refer to a stupid person as a "dopey dildox". I never knew the origin of the term, but the word dildo now jumps out at me.

I recently had an experience with an intern at work who kept using that term. Multiple times a day. I was getting tired of it I could see he's a smart guy, with the talent to do well. too cocky, and needs to settle down. A senior(male) co-worker, who is quite skilled, and whom I respect was saying, "He has a lot of growing up to do. The question is,'can he do it fast enough'" and kind of took the kid under his wing.

I finally got tired of him using that expression, one day he used it and I said, "how would you know?" He just looked at me like, "WTF?" which gave me time to walk over to his work area. I'm already 5'11" without heels, and those were about the highest heels I wear to work, so I must have been up about 6'2". He's about 5'6" and MAYBE 110 soaking wet. I just stood there, looked him in the eye, and said, "Have YOU ever been on the business end of one??" His response was, "Well Uh." I looked him in the eye and said, "You need to show a little respect to those of us who HAVE!!" He skulked away like a scolded puppy. That senior male who had been coaching him. Said, "I warned you about crossing her." In that moment, I don't think there was a hole deep enough.

Needless to say I haven't herd it again. I'm confident that I won't.

I know that I've been using the term for years to mean someone who is uncouth and not really nice to others.

It's been said on a number of television shows the best of which is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_b3oPslctA

Good work, LisaK.

Just a funny story. (In CT, USA) I watched as a co-worker listened to a group of Spanish speaking residents, (physicians), talking about patients in the hallway. She heard enough to know that they were not respecting patients confidentiality and walked up, (Cape Cod Irish, Caucasian), and in perfect Colombian Spanish asked them to take their conversation elsewhere and to respect patients confidentiality from now on. The look on their faces was priceless, they could not imagine a Caucasian female telling them off in their own language. (She spent 11 years in Columbia with the Peace Corps and married a Colombian surgeon so she had pleanty of experience with Spanish.)

I am probably one of the older posters on this site, but a generation or two ago, every girl had a douche bag and used it regularly. When disposables came available, they must have fell out of favor. It was no big deal, I even dated a girl that balanced her checkbook while sitting on the toilet using her douche bag. In those days a girl without a douche bag was unusual and kinda wondered about.

Found out since my last posting: Back in the 1980s when my parents were still together, young girls were already being taught NOT to douche. My Mom would as soon have skipped it most Sunday Nights, and HER MOTHER would not listen to that. It was EVERY weekend, whether she needed it or not.

I think Douche Bag is a great description for someone that acts like a jerk. In fact if you hear the word out of context it is the first thing you think of, not mom and massengill.

@Moppys_jalopy , yep and unfortunately I know a few !

We've all been a DOUCHBAG at one or more points in our life. I've done or said some things that when I look back on it can't help but call myself a douche!!

Hopefully - it isn't permanent!!

I usually look them i the eye and ask, "Faultless or Davol?"

I've told this story before

At work we had a new recruit Young man right out of college. All the talent one person could have, but the maturity of a 10-year-old.

The company put him with a likable older male co-worker of mine to "Show him the ropes."

He kept using that word "douchebag" over and over and over. Several times a hour. We finally decided it was past time for him to grow up a little.

Now I do't think this guy stands the 5 ft 6 he says he is.

As I've posted before, I stand 5 ft 11 without the heels ad I usually wear at least a bit of a heel to work because there are no other females t my level and I have to be able ton look the men in the eye

I was on about a 3-inch heel that day so I was up around 6 ft 2 in heels

I said, 'You have any personal experience with the douche bag?

He said"What do you mean I made sure I was towering over him pretty good and said "It;s time for you to start showing a little more respect for those of us who have been on the business end of one more than once! Especially since we all KNOW you can't speak from personal experience! Like I can!"

He looked at his mentor, and brilliantly he half looks at him, and said, "Remember what I said about messing with the alpha female!"

At that moment, I don't think there was a hole deep enough!

I have not herd him use it since, and all around his professionalism has improved remarkably

LisaK: In France, a common insult is "enculé", meaning somebody who has been fucked in the ass ("en" = "in", "cul" = "ass").

I saw the following answer to somebody who over used this word: "What's the big deal? You should try getting fucked in the ass as well, you would perhaps be more relaxed."

I cannot speak for others in other areas, but the term has pretty much fallen into disuse around here. When I DO hear it, it is usually used as a casual teasing term.

Around where I live, douchebag is synonymous with calling someone an asshole. I’m pretty sure most don’t even think about the proper meaning of the term.

I just say douche but it has the same meaning.

Three Inch heels today in a office setting? Really? Ok Jerry, enough is enough.