The term "butthurt" seems wrong. Research seems to confirm.

[kouriichi]

From what my research has pointed out, its more of a poke at someone being Homosexual.

Because the terms "Gey" and "FGGT" are so common in online gaming, casual and hardcore, one would assume that "Butthurt" is more directed at the person taking it "IN DA BUTT".
Such as described in this video.

And because of the blatant avoidance of taking it "in da butt", when one is burned, hurt, or damaged (as one would probably after anal insertion for the first few times), they are then "butthurt".

but thats just my 2cents.

 

[Irridium]

Butt when I get angry on the internet, my butt starts hurting.

 

[Furioso]

I thought it referred to childish whining, as in "MOMMMYYYYYY TOMMY KICKED ME IN THE BUTT" implying that a "Butthurt" person was just whining about something childish they could easily get over

 

[isometry]

Of course! American english is full of anti-woman/anti-gay slurs that we should get rid of.

yes because we all know British English isn't full of anti-woman/anti-gay slurs... oh wait

I didn't necessarily want to speak on behalf of the brits. If both American and British english are full of such slurs, then my statement that "american english is full of such slurs" is still correct.

 

[geK0]

I figure it's considerably less vulgar than the oh so common "******"; at least with "butt hurt" there is room for interpretation for the reason the person's butt hurts, perhaps they had eaten hot peppers recently.

Actually, it's quite similar to the phrase "pain in the ass", just sort of flipped to the person being annoyed rather than the one who's annoying. If I told somebody they were a pain in the ass, I would hope they wouldn't think I was implying that they had anal sex with me.

 

[geK0]

I figure it's considerably less vulgar than the oh so common "******"; at least with "butt hurt" there is room for interpretation for the reason the person's but hurts, perhaps they had eaten hot peppers recently.

there is room for interpretation with "******".. .after all the slang meaning of a homosexual man is not it's original meaning but a newer use of the word...

perhaps the person calling you a ****** is simply calling you a bundle of stick or iron bars or maybe a ball of chopped meat... thus insulting your intelligence by comparing you to said inanimate items... I mean technically it can be used to refer to a bundle of anything so it might be a compliment by saying you are a bundle meaning you are a collection of many things... he could be giving you a "****** of compliments"

Fair enough; next time I play call of duty, I'll thank everyone for calling me a bundle of win and awesome
: D

 

[razer17]

Firstly
What does it even matter where the word came from? Even if it did somehow originally refer to rape (which I doubt), people who use it in that term are usually not using it to mean anything other than someone being very angry and annoyed.

If I call you a **** or a dick, I'm not saying your are aa vagina or penis, respectively, but just trying to offend you. Same with butthurt, even if it was somehow rape related, it isn't used in that context now.