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Ivas · 04-04-2011, 08:46 PM

Having heard people tell other people to "Suck it up!" I've come to wonder just what the hell is being said, and to what end.
It is sometimes said as an encouragement to accept adversity and to persevere regardless of personal costs. This is, on the face of it, clear. Still, if you consider the coercion factor of the one doing the admonishing, maybe that person needs the other to do something that is NOT in their interest, and is pulling a psychological whammy on the other person to accomplish it.

It could also be a dominance strategy where the person who performs what he is told is "his duty", or something similar to that, is submitting, albeit unknowingly, to the will of the person doing the ordering.

Furthermore, that reference to "sucking" has an infantile/sexual implication that is undeniable. And the relative location of what is to be sucked UP, being down, is also casting a scatological aspersion, and thereby adding to the demeaning aspect upon he who does the sucking.

So my brethren, what do you say when someone tells you to "Suck it up!"?

04-04-2011, 08:46 PM	#1
Ivas el Ruco Drives: 2010 Camaro SS (now runnin' TENS ) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Fontana, CA Posts: 7,388	Suck it up! What does that mean dude? Having heard people tell other people to "Suck it up!" I've come to wonder just what the hell is being said, and to what end. It is sometimes said as an encouragement to accept adversity and to persevere regardless of personal costs. This is, on the face of it, clear. Still, if you consider the coercion factor of the one doing the admonishing, maybe that person needs the other to do something that is NOT in their interest, and is pulling a psychological whammy on the other person to accomplish it. It could also be a dominance strategy where the person who performs what he is told is "his duty", or something similar to that, is submitting, albeit unknowingly, to the will of the person doing the ordering. Furthermore, that reference to "sucking" has an infantile/sexual implication that is undeniable. And the relative location of what is to be sucked UP, being down, is also casting a scatological aspersion, and thereby adding to the demeaning aspect upon he who does the sucking. So my brethren, what do you say when someone tells you to "Suck it up!"?