As you can see from its Urban Dictionary definition, Teabagging is normally understood as a heterosexual practice. That doesn’t prevent Scott Johnson of Powerline from interpreting it as a strictly homosexual practice and writing an entire essay about how cable networks were calling the Tea Party protesters ‘sissy-boys’ in a coded and underhanded way. It’s not surprising he’s got it wrong, considering this:
The star hosts of CNN and MSNBC news shows have notoriously derided the tea party demonstrations around the country with reference to the practice of teabagging (which I had never heard of before they brought it up).
Yeah, Scott? You still haven’t really mastered the meaning here. Whether you think of teabagging as a gross, disrespectful practice or merely as good fun between consenting adults, the point isn’t that it’s gay. It’s that everytime we see you idiots all we can think of is ball-play. You’re ridiculous.
