Did you know that all fathers are motherfuckers?
If someone is your father, then this person has fucked your mother. This is how you were born, and also what makes father a motherfucker. He might no longer fuck her, but he certainly did before — oh yes he did, that motherfucker.
The fact that all fathers are motherfuckers is implicated in what Freud called the Oedipus complex. It’s based off an ancient story called Oedipus Rex (429 BC), where a king named Oedpius unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. There is a whole lot of drama involved with both Oedipus Rex and the Oedipus complex that is implicated in both our usage of the word motherfucker as an insult, and the fact that “motherfucker” also describes a structurally troublesome aspect of normative family relationships.
You’re a newborn baby. You can’t take care of yourself, you cry about it all the time, and mother promptly takes care of you because of your helplessness. She also loves you, and you love her too — a lot. Whenever you’re hungry she sticks one of her breasts in your mouth and you suck on it. It feels good for both of you; you bond, and mother…
