Arcadia Berger's definitions

bender

A shelter widely used by British hippies travelling in caravans, formed by cutting springy young tree branches or root suckers and bending them into a bowed shape, securing them to the ground at both ends, until a curved space is formed. Covered by a tarp, it serves as a sort of tent.

"We'll make a bender for you for the night." "I don't feel the need for a homosexual bloke nor a short jail term, so I'm hoping you mean a temporary shelter."

by Arcadia Berger May 17, 2006

napoli

3. To publicly reveal a fantasy that would better have been kept private.

Bill O'Reilly napolis wistfully on the murders that would have ensued if one of John Wayne's or Clint Eastwood's cowboy characters had stumbled across the Brokeback Mountain lovers.

by Arcadia Berger April 19, 2006

catch and release

Flirting during a conversation or even a date in a very forward manner, creating the impression of a strong sexual interest, with no intention of actually following through.

I don't like the term cock teasing. I prefer to think of it as 'catch and release'.

by Arcadia Berger December 7, 2006

Vox

Someone who talks endlessly without saying anything worth hearing.

"Is there any way to shut up that whiny little vox at the end of the bar?"

by Arcadia Berger February 5, 2013

Demotion Fetish

Demotion Fetish: Sexual arousal from treating or being treated like someone of lower social status: being treated like a servant in your own home, or being treated like a prostitute by your own spouse.

"I go over to his place, put on this silly maid's uniform, and clean up, even though I have a housekeeper of my own. Being under his domination turns me on -- I guess I have a demotion fetish."

by Arcadia Berger August 21, 2016

Gender Ideology

The ideology which holds, contrary to all existing biological, medical and psychological science, that there are "only two genders", that "sex and gender are synonymous".
This ideology was created by transphobic and transmiscic people who believe that transgender persons are delusional, that transgender persons can be turned into cisgender persons through conversion therapy, that conversion therapy is not quackery unsupported by medical evidence, that conversion therapy is not torture. Many gender ideologues also believe that there is a secret "transgender conspiracy" among greedy physicians and mentally ill teachers acting as "groomers", "grooming" cisgender children with a goal of "transing" them.

Proponents of gender ideology believe, as Dr. John Money did, that it is possible to groom cisgender children into becoming transgender. This is a belief not supported by science.

by Arcadia Berger September 5, 2023

Hysteria

An irrational obsession with the uterus and other female sex organs (or their absence) at birth

The current hysteria over trans girls and trans women playing in sports is really making life miserable for all athletes, including cis women and girls, and trans boys and men.

by Arcadia Berger July 16, 2023