"Creepy": how do you define creepy ?

[steve2470]

I post on another forum, not to be named. On there, the word "creepy" gets used a lot. Not just about horror movies and stuff like that, but about a lot of situations.

When I was younger, I never ever read or heard that word, partially because I'm not into horror movies or scary stuff (I hate to be scared, frankly). It seems now, that anything that makes you feel uncomfortable in the slightest gets called creepy.

I hate to be a word nerd, but can't we use more specific words, like anxious ? Unsettled ? Uncomfortable ? Startled ? Discomfited ?

I turn 59 in a few weeks, must be why. Fetch me my cane, boy! :p

[Sneederbunk]

1. Stephen Miller

[Croney]

2. Dead stuffed animals on a wall.

[Botany]

3. This guy

He would give unwanted calls to women and talk dirty to them as he played with
himself and had a buzz toy up his butt and then go and write and talk about
looking out for the folks and the importance of moral values.

[steve2470]

4. a sick sick man, because he's such a freaking hypocrite

If it's mutual consent, ok, but he is a huge hypocrite and deceitful.

[Botany]

8. And don't forget that the NY Mets had him for a try out to be a pitcher too

http://www.rawstory.com/2014/11/keith-olbermann-giddily-picks-apart-bill-oreillys-claims-of-being-a-super-jock/

[steve2470]

11. a pitcher ????

The words O'Reilly and athlete never occurred to me. If he wasn't famous/infamous, they wouldn't even look at him.

[Botany]

13. The NY Mets "try out" never happened.

Bill is 6'4" but the stories he has told about his athletic prowess are pure bull crap.

BTW Did you know that Bill was one of the greatest punters in the history of college
football too?

[steve2470]

14. lol no, he's such a gigantic liar, just like TRUMP nt

[Botany]

15. Read the article @ post #8

He talked about seeing Tom Seaver as a rookie pitcher in 1972 ....
4 or 5 years after Seaver had been in the big leagues.

O'Reilly's book, "The Killing of Lincoln" was so bad that the
national park service banned it from the shop @ Ford's theater.

He wrote something like ...... Lincoln went back to the oval office .....
which was not built until 1910.

[Iggo]

5. Spooky, except more mundane.

[bettyellen]

6. It has a lot to do with ignoring or pushing boundaries... often for nefarious intent.

I think we get- and make a lot of room for- people who do it accidentally. Yet so many people count on not getting pushing back because it makes things uncomfortable, so they push it. For me if it's mild I can ignore or reject it and move on, but I've seen creeps really pick out less assertive women and sort of cage them- blatantly ignoring (often enjoying) their obvious discomfort or distress. Some people enjoy creating that discomfort and distress and going as far as they can. It's hella creepy, Steve.

I can't judge the women for being too kind, I remember I was too the first five or six times it happened to me. I enjoy quietly and calmly shutting down that shit while moving on to continue a pleasant evening. Because the whole world acts like a woman rejecting your company is the end of the damned world. I like to show how quick and easy it can be.

[steve2470]

9. excellent post

Yes, way too many men do what you say. ONE is too many. We men need to respect women at all times.

[bettyellen]

12. And culturally it's tied into all the gaslighting we see coming from the WH. When you see

The lies and the implied threats and people try to tell you it's not there... that's sort of the same dance women do al the time socially. Don't make waves- don't accuse anyone of doing something horrible- because then it's YOU who brings the horrible to the table. That's a lie, but it's often how people experience things.

You have to flip that script back to reality and break down what the awful is, and where it came from. Pour some sunlight on it and say nope- I didn't bring this here, I'm here to put it in the trash where it belongs.

[Faux pas]

7. The whole

rethuglican party.

[Freedomofspeech]

10. Any republican.

[surrealAmerican]

16. It may be your gender that explains why you didn't hear it much when you were younger.

Among girls, creepy is often used to describe that boy or man who makes you feel very uncomfortable.

My first reaction to this word has nothing to do with horror movies.

[steve2470]

18. ah, thank you! :) nt

[LeftInTX]

20. I agree with SurrealAmerican

I was going to post the same thing.

It is part of my vocabulary going way back. It's pretty much reflexive for me.

Creepy may imply some sort of physical contact, but most of the time it does not occur. A guy who is too forward will often be perceived as creepy. A creep is more nefarious than a jerk. A jerk will tell stupid jokes and get on your nerves. Jerk and A-hole are used interchangeable. Scaramucci is an A-hole. Bannon is a creep.

Bannon is a creep because just looking at his picture makes me want to take a shower. Mitch McConnell is a creep because he is so slimy.

It is pretty much part of my vernacular.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Clowns standing around.

[SethH]

19. kids with English accents

i'm not sure why but

[True Dough]

21. There are some great examples given above

Another one would be a fellow who creates a thread on the DU looking for the definition of "creepy." That's creepy!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. There are a couple different kinds of creepy.

There's the horror movie sort of creepy - a sense of menace from an unknown danger or a person who's obviously not quite right even before they do anything, like Norman Bates or Hannibal Lecter.

Then there's the sort of creepy that describes a person you might encounter IRL - the guy you meet somewhere and he gets too familiar too fast, or he says something sort of inappropriate, though maybe not to the point where you immediately identify him as a serial killer. But he isn't quite right.

There's something about him that makes you not want to spend any time alone with him, maybe not because you think he'll throw you in a pit and make you rub lotion on yourself so he can kill you and make clothes for himself out of your skin, or that you suspect him of keeping his dead mother in a rocking chair in the attic. But maybe it crosses your mind for a bit. At least, you figure he's into exotic and disturbing porn and you don't want him to even learn your name because you're worried about what he'd do with Photoshop and your Facebook picture.