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by fermienrico 1934 days ago
> My guess is that the person who first said that didn't intend for the metaphor/description to be taken quite as literally as everyone ended up taking it. (Or they meant to mislead.)

This is the problem. Why are they trying to shoehorn male or female dominance here? The whole thing is not only unpleasant to read, but also confusing.

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They are not "trying to shoehorn male or female dominance here"

They are describing the shapes, and the orientations of the projectiles in terms of coital positions - with which, um, some percentage of the adult population has some familiarity.

Here, "female-superior arrangement" means that the male is supine, and the female straddles atop him