Tea Bagging – what it means

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I’m really getting tired of, and angry at, hearing the phrase "tea baggers" in reference to people who are involved in the Tea Party movement. People who know what it refers to, and use it intentionally, should be ashamed. For those who don’t know what it means … I’m going to explain it.

Tea bagging refers to a sexual act in which a male places his scrotum (ball sac, nuts, cods, family jewels, gonads, etc.) into the mouth of his sexual partner. Wikipedia has further explanation with a graphic representation of the act. See it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag_(sexual_act)

So when writers, broadcasters and bloggers call those in the Tea Party movement "tea baggers", they are calling a large group of people "scrotum suckers". Real classy, huh?

So if you’ve been using the term just because you’ve heard it repeated so often, and it seems the trendy thing to say, maybe you should rethink it. To continue using it after you know its meaning is to admit that you are a spiteful, sophomoric boor who should receive neither credibility nor respect.