Ridicule
Tea bagging is not always carried out consensually, such as when it is done as a practical joke, which, in some jurisdictions, is sexual assault or sexual battery.. It has been used during hazing or bullying incidents with reports including groups holding down victims while the perpetrator "shoved his testicles in face" or puts his "crotch to his head."
Mimicking the act has become a popular taunt in multiplayer first person shooter video games and platform games, to imply domination or humiliation. Although considered by some to be bad sportsmanship, its use has become widespread in gaming.
Supporters of the Tea Party political movement are frequently called "teabaggers" by the movement's critics in reference to the slang term.
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Famous quotes containing the word ridicule:
“If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of policy as ever was invented.... The ridicule fixed on the appellation of old maid hath, I doubt not, frightened a very large number into the bonds of wedlock.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)
“My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print; yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. Those comments constitute a fair specimen of what has occurred to me through life. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)