It's clearly sexual from the context of the meme. Pretty much any time this happens, it's sexual in nature. Otherwise it would just be confusing rather than presented as humorous.
If that were entirely true, a "power bottom" would make no sense.
The terms sexual usage originated in gay circles where it only delineates who penetrates and who gets penetrated. Traditional views on sex ascribe a submissive or passive role to the bottom and an active or dominating role to the top, but you can totally have a power bottom who takes control and an active role in the intercourse but is the one getting penetrated.
Of course, it's comics so it could just as easily be another Riverdale canon they're colliding with that just looks like the show and is exactly like it except the couple things they changed....
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samus12345@lemmy.world · 125 pts · 2y
Still means "bested" to me. I'm not hip to sexual slang.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 2y
Clearly you are if you know what type of slang "topped" is lol
veroxii@aussie.zone · 111 pts · 2y
At my age I just assume anything I don't know is sexual.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 67 pts · 2y
Don't you come "bussin' no cap" at me young man, I'm happily married.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 31 pts · 2y
Such rizz for a jballer!
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 2y
Are you... are you hitting on me?
Syltti@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Reading all this, I gotta ask; Did it work?
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 2y
Yes, veroxii and I are married now.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
It's clearly sexual from the context of the meme. Pretty much any time this happens, it's sexual in nature. Otherwise it would just be confusing rather than presented as humorous.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 2y
"Topping" means taking an active role in sex, whereas "bottoming" is a passive role.
Enkrod@feddit.de · 19 pts · 2y
Nyeah... partly.
If that were entirely true, a "power bottom" would make no sense.
The terms sexual usage originated in gay circles where it only delineates who penetrates and who gets penetrated. Traditional views on sex ascribe a submissive or passive role to the bottom and an active or dominating role to the top, but you can totally have a power bottom who takes control and an active role in the intercourse but is the one getting penetrated.
x4740N@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I got both the meaning you mention and the sexual meaning
meleethecat@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 2y
At least she didn’t pull a boner.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y
I'll show them how many boners Betty can make!!
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
She can pull three boners simultaneously
AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 65 pts · 2y
My favorite is the Nixon campaign buttons that says "They Can't Lick Our Dick"
the_joeba@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 2y
That's not a language change, they knew.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
What?? 😭
merc@sh.itjust.works · 62 pts · 2y
Johanno@feddit.de · 17 pts · 2y
What's the actual meaning of boner?
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 2y
mistake
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Erection.
Johanno@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
That one I knew
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 2y
Boner
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
You shall rue this day apparently.
x4740N@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
I'm assuming boner here means mistake but actual boners can be mistakes sometimes and lead to unintended consequences
OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I half remember being told this originally came from bonehead. so like a bonehead would make a mistake like that. which then got shortened to boner.
jenny_ball@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
there was an 80s kids show where one of the characters was literally named boner lolllll
Maven@lemmy.zip · 57 pts · 2y
Hot
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 2y
Good for her.
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 42 pts · 2y
I dunno, the looks on the bystanders faces implies it's got the same impact as it might today.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 2y
Get topped idiot
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
butter@midwest.social · 28 pts · 2y
What is this supposed to have meant?
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 2y
She got one upped, outdone, lost to her rival, and now needs to take it in ass again from her.
klemptor@startrek.website · 52 pts · 2y
Mmmhmm, yup, yeah, wait...wut??
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y
I've seen the source, it's all true. That's why they eventually formed a poly triangle with Archie, and, occasionally, The Predator.
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I don't think the Riverdale show is canon in the comics
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Well, mayhap I stand corrected.
Of course, it's comics so it could just as easily be another Riverdale canon they're colliding with that just looks like the show and is exactly like it except the couple things they changed....
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y
🤔
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
But as an old fucker, I don't know the current meaning.
fushuan@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
the same one, but it's used in a sexual context. Being the top is being the dominant one on a relationship, sexually speaking.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Oohhhhhhhh. Thanks
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Also means giving oral
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Something like "one-upped", I believe.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 25 pts · 2y
Bottom energy.
germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 2y
I wish that was me
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 2y
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unreachable@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
mctoasterson@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y
This apparently changed around the same time people stopped using "Give 'em the high hard one".
don@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
As another example, the man isn’t queer at all.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Aint a thang wrong with it even today
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y