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:
“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humour, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)