[Re. Tea Partiers being called Teabaggers]
Why do no homosexual activists take offense, or even speak out, about the communist / leftist regime which is SUPPOSED to be the tolerant, pro-gay rights wing, using a term for a gay sexual practice as a slur to mock other people? Do neither they, nor the leftards, see the irony here? Is that how much the leftards really “respect” the diversity of those who practice same-sex acts? Is that the example of the left’s ‘tolerance’ of gays, to use them as a pejorative?
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Umm didn't the teabaggers..call themselves that?
I mean, i was under the impression that it was such a parody of a legitimate social movement it had chosen the name for ITSELF rather than having it imposed on them.
Teabagging isn't restricted to just gays, anyone may partake in the act assuming there is one person with a scrotum. Like, open your mind, dudes. Geez, what the fucks is wrong with you?
Teabagging is not an exclusively homosexual act, dimwit.
Either way, you initially chose to call yourselves "teabaggers." You can't take it back now that you know what it means, no matter how embarrassing or degrading it is. Your ignorance of what "teabagging" actually meant is hilariously parallel to the larger willful ignorance that plagues the Tea Party. And that's not to mention the symbolic imagery of the metaphorical corporate-1%-cock you teabag, stopping only to say "Thank you, may I have another?" when they bitch-slap you and get themselves fatter at your expense.
(Sorry for the graphic imagery there, guys, but it it was begging to be pointed out and practically wrote itself, really.)
Well, it seems the Teabaggers were completely oblivious to meaning of the word they chose to append to themselves, so it's too much to expect that they can deduce that the action in question isn't restricted to homosexuals.
In other words, kid, your point isn't nearly as salient as you thought, so you might want to sit down again before you embarrass yourself further.
I thought the term originated from the so-called 'Tea Partiers' mailing teabags to the White House as a form of protest; completely ignorant that the original Boston Tea Party is to protest the British government's tax on tea.
Apparently not only are Teabaggers ignorant of their country's history, they also forgot the short history of their own organization.
What is concerning is the extent of the influence of a supposed fringe group. Considering that several prospective politicians are pandering to them for the coming election and the amount of media coverage they are getting. (At least once a week by at least one major media outlet)
Either a significant portion of the American population is paste-eatingly stupid / dangerously insane or someone in power is pushing the group into prominence.
If worse comes to worse, the smart True Americans, like myself, who value freedom & equality, should just move to Canada.
> Why do no homosexual activists take offense [...] using a term for a gay sexual practice as a slur to mock other people?
I dunno, if I hear gay people calling themselves faggots, I just shrug and let them call themselves what they want to be called. They might even have the sense of humour if someone else uses the term of themselves. I try to avoid it anyway, because, hey, I don't use potentially offensive terms too lightly.
Since the Tea Partiers themselves wanted to be called teabaggers, who are we to argue, even if the term is obviously highly confusing?
Well, maybe because they started out calling themselves 'teabaggers', and were too dim to realise what it meant until it was pointed out to them. So it continues as a sort of celebration of their ignorance and naïvety, something they have in abundance. If we wanted to highlight every inanity we would have to change our term for them every couple of days; 'teabaggers' is just easy to stick with.
the only one making connections between trabagging and homosexuality is you.
also, "leftards?" on behalf of the developmentally challenged, fuck you
Why is offense not taken? Well, could be that most 'teabagging' occurs in the realm of Player-vs-Player video gaming, comedic webcomics, and wharbargling idiot rants.
...just sayin'.
You must have a very boring heterosexual sex life. tea bagging is not a solely homosexual act, heterosexuals do it too.
Also, if you can't tell the difference between a name that is associated with a fun sexual act and a derogatory racial slur, then you are much more stupid than I had imagined was humanly possible.
History of Teabaggers using the term:
Feb. 27, 2009
April 1, 2009
September 10, 2009
Here's a picture of a Teabagger with one of the pins they sell: http://washingtonindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Picture-28.png
You all started it, so quick being babies about it!
No, because the gays themselves use the term. It's ironic, because it makes fun of the rampant homophobia amongst the Tea Party by implying that they are gay. Besides, the Tea Party called themselves Teabaggers first.
Teabaggers were the ones using that term. Because they are stupid fucking morons, and didn't bother to search for any other uses of the word. Which then begs the questions: Why do conservatives continually shoot themselves in the foot? Why do conservatives always vote against their own best interest?
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"Why do no homosexual activists take offense, or even speak out, about the communist / leftist regime which is SUPPOSED to be the tolerant, pro-gay rights wing, using a term for a gay sexual practice as a slur to mock other people?"
Ahem:
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I love the smell of arguments blasted out of the space-time continuum in the morning. Smells like... victory.
Hell, back in my day, when we were much more literary, we used to call that "reading Balzaac", and only one of the partners need be male. As to the rest, the Tea Partiers adopted it themselves when they sent teabags to Congress. They also ruined the concept of tea parties, perfectly delightful events which in this country are considered ladylike, though on the other side of the Pond, utterly macho curry- colonels have engaged in them. We now refer to events with actual events that have tea pots, sugar, and lemon or cream as "four o'clocks", which evoke a delightfully fragrant summer flower instead of frightfully smelly politics.
In retrospect for the past twelve years, the idiocy level at the conservative end of the political spectrum is self insulting. There's nothing anyone can do about it, there's no cure for stupid. Whoever made that comment is the posterboy for the 90 IQ majority in the United States, which is predominantly Christian.
I doubt most people have even heard of "teabagger" as a reference to a sexual practice (heterosexuals can do it, too). The last time I heard the term, back in the 60's, it referred to what we would probably call "preppies" today - the sort who wore Brooks Brothers, longed to drive an MG-TD and were into Pete Seeger and Peter, Paul and Mary.
I don't suppose you see the irony in calling someone on the fact they use a pejorative expression against your group (Teabaggers) by calling them one yourself (leftards)?
I don't usually think of 'teabagging' as a sexual practice at all, and certainly not a gay one - as the version I'm familiar with is mostly done by drunken fratboys to other drunken fratboys by plunking their fuzzy peaches on their passed-out comrade's forehead and taking pictures. (Which wind up on the internet, hence that definition is more publicized.)
@Dale
Oh dear, you just pwned yourself, Dale.
I've noticed this, too. How many times has The Daily Show made jokes about people they disagree with that are basically "yeah, well, you're gay"? Or self-proclaimed liberals assuming a character is a lesbian because she has short hair?
We call the Tea Partiers teabaggers because that's the name they chose for themselves while the rest of us who knew what the term really meant tried to hold in the laughter and keep our stomachs from bursting in the effort. Not our fault they were ignorant fools when they chose the label, unaware of its other meanings.
Well, you lot shot yourselves right in the feet when you deliberately took the name "Teabaggers" for yourselves. WITHOUT doing any research beforehand. What else can you expect but for the rest of the world to snicker at your stupidity? Most already knew it was only a matter of time before it all backfired.
I'm glad I'm not one of these people that ends up getting roasted on this site. It's nice to never concern yourself with homosexuality and for it to never cross your mind, that's one of the best things about being heterosexual. There will never come a time when I will discuss homosexuality because it entered my mind on it's own volition, frankly Christians annoy me with the obsessive nature of their deeply closeted minds and their unequaled expertise in all manner of homosexual acts. At least now they can add teabagging to their repertoire of sexual acts they obsess about.
It's funny you call the people on the left "lefttards" because I often hear them calling you "conservatards."
I think they have much better reason to call you that though and I often will call people "conservatards."
You see...although I do not line up with the right or left in politics I do believe the left is far more sensible and on average I see much more insane ass fucking people (like you) on the right side. So even though I hate politics I sympathize with the left alot more than you fucking morons. How can you take a party seriously that wants to fuck over the middle class? Seriously? People who are conservative are a fucking joke...
"Teabagging" in a sexual context.
Crap, and yet another term I have to google.
[edit - post google posting]
I'm inspired to recite poetry:
"There once was a man from Nantucket ..."
Dear Slobyskya rotchikokov,
if you search hard enough, I'm sure you'll be able to find some obscene (perhaps gay) connotation for "Tea Party", so I'll start feeling sorry for you right now, in advance.
Since "Tea Party" just might be obscene, I'll call you something else. How about "delusionary reactionary extremist"?
No gay there, so we're safe.
1. You guys made up the name yourselves. You only started taking offense when you discovered it meant something else.
2. Teabaggers aren't all gay, and not all gays are teabaggers. There's really no strong association there.
3. Most gays are on our side, so any offense they might take at the term is trumped by the satisfaction of our attacks on your despicable attempts at "civil discourse."
@anon #1346745
I think both of those are actually happening. Call me a pessimist, but there is so much shit happening in America right now that I can't imagine it with only one source.
If I remember right, it was you jackasses that gave yourselves the original "Teabaggers" while us "dirty liberals" giggled in your face about it until someone finally googled it and got Urban Dictionary's definition as a top result. Course, the stupidity from them is beyond the name but that's another topic.
Also teabagging isn't a homosexual only activity, it can be done with a man and woman as well.
One. Teabagging is not a strictly homosexual act. It is an insensitive and humiliating act.
1- Teabagging falls more under the category of "college prank" than "gay sex act".
2- Many of the early tea party signs proclaimed themselves to be "teabaggers" or to "teabag" the opposition. This, of course, is hilarious.
Clearly you don't know what teabagging is, either that or you are living under the delusion that straight people only ever have sex missionary style. News flash: most of the things gays do, straights do too.
@jesusaur
"Testicles in the mouth for Jesus, that's a sacrilegious mouthful."
Which is why right-wing fundies talk a load of bollocks.
"Why do no homosexual activists take offense, or even speak out, about the communist / leftist regime which is SUPPOSED to be the tolerant, pro-gay rights wing, using a term for a gay sexual practice as a slur to mock other people? Do neither they, nor the leftards, see the irony here?"
Why do right wing bigots take the name of a gay sex act as the name of their oh-so-moral terrorist group? Do neither they, nor the rightards, see the irony here?
Or maybe you forgot the last 3 years of history and think someone else stuck that name on you?
Tea bagging is not a homosexual proclivity. All that one needs is a "teabag" and a receptacle in which to dunk it.
And you guys came up with the name in the first place, totally ignorant of the connotation. This is so hilarious that others who disagree with your politics and methods find it extremely amusing to allow you to make fun of yourselves.
Why do no homosexual activists take offense, or even speak out, about the communist / leftist regime which is SUPPOSED to be the tolerant, pro-gay rights wing, using a term for a gay sexual practice as a slur to mock other people?
By "regime", one supposes that our lovable idiot of a poster is referring to the Obama Administration.
When has anyone in the Obama Administration actually used the term when speaking in an official capacity?
So the Tea Party called themselves "teabaggers", unaware of its naughty connotation, and now they want to blame them dam' lib'ruls for it. That's like Colgate blaming liberals for snickering at a toothpaste they marketed in France called "Cue", which was also the name of a French porn magazine.
I don't think "teabagging" is an exclusively gay practice, nor do you have to be a gay male to perform it. You simply have to have testicles to drop onto another person's face/into another person's mouth.
At any rate, it certainly seems an appropriate epithet to me, as the scrotum that is the Tea Party has been slapping the US in the face for quite some time now. >_>
@ 1346745
"Either a significant portion of the American population is paste-eatingly stupid / dangerously insane or someone in power is pushing the group into prominence.
Not mutually exclusive, and regrettably both correct. "Fixing" public education and shunting people into special-interest and brain cell-wasting religious schools has been a favorite pastime of the conservitards. How else do you get to sell bullshit and convince voters to ignore their own interests in favor of yours?
Um. Teabaggers kinda called themselves that, you moron. It's roughly in line with "gangsta" types calling each other "nigga". It's moronic, but the group itself established the trend. And no, I'd rather not tilt at a windmill of your own making when there's real issues to go after instead.
And here I thought it was an FPS gamer thing, to humilate their fresh frags. Or an asshole thing to humilate and bully people after beating them up.
I'm seriously not aware of anyone doing that for sexual gratification at all.
That, and it's what Tea Baggers called themselves... specifically because they beleived themselves to be humiliating a corrupt government as opposed to humiliating themselves with their antics.
@John
@TWoozl
Obviously, Moonbattery fans don't play HALO.
(Incidently, I tell the noobs that do it to me to not Palin me. So fucking there!)
Tea bagging can be done between heteros... Yes, yes, it is name calling.
And not a racist thing, more of a your-a-dick-so-I'll-justify-being-a-dick. Playground taunts if you will. You know, like leftard.
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