# Conservatives: Is "teabagger" an insult? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604 "2011-08-13T20:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604/21 "2011-08-15T05:01:04Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > However, I laugh whenever I hear the term, both because the mental imagery is kinda funny, and because of the irony of a liberal using (what I percieve as) a gay slur to describe people he or she doesn’t like. > > I don’t know. Am I way off base to conflate this particular oral sex act with a man as a gay slur? If someone said it to me, I percieve it as shortform for, “I don’t like what you stand for; you probably gargle another man’s junk! Loser!!” Point of clarification: is the teabagger the person dipping their junk, or the recipient? Or both? I always assumed the former, but am happy to receive clarification on this very important point. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604/22 "2011-08-15T17:12:33Z")
It is obviously insulting and meant to be insulting, I am not personally insulted because it is just a juvenile, sophmoric insult and I am not in grade school anymore. Childish insults which take the place of serious argument demean the person using the insult not the person being insulted. I know the first person to use it was a conservative, though I think that he was using it in the frathouse prank way and not the sexual way. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604/23 "2011-08-15T20:33:42Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > I’ve never thought of it as having anything to do with gays, but maybe I’m wrong. No, you’re not wrong. “Gay slur” is laughably inaccurate here. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604/24 "2011-08-17T05:30:51Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > Point of clarification: is the teabagger the person dipping their junk, or the recipient? Or both? I always assumed the former, but am happy to receive clarification on this very important point. I always assumed it was the receiver “teabagging” someone’s balls. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604/25 "2011-08-17T05:50:31Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Lifelong conservative here. I regard the Tea Party the way traditional Mormons probably feel about Warren Jeffs. Insult them all you like; They are not us. > > So no, it’s not an insult. It _is_ an insult, just no one that reflects upon us personally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-is-teabagger-an-insult/592604.md?page=1)