No, not always. When I hear the word "creep", I think of that quote from the guy in Dazed and Confused:
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
He wasn't the worst-looking dude. Ugly moustache, but otherwise handsome enough. Now imagine having family members, male or especially female, hanging around people like that, and tell me if you think that that's healthy.
Edit: A lot of people seem to disagree with me that this near-paedophilic quote is something reproachable. Interesting.
That's the original definition of the term. The guy you're responding to is pointing out that these days the term is mostly used to slander unattractive men for daring to exist by associating them with the kind of example you gave. Women often become enraged when a man they find unattractive approaches them because they take it as an insinuation that they're on the same level as someone they see as subhuman.
The term creep, like misogynist, racist, incel and other loaded words, has had their definitions extrapolated to go beyond the traditional dictionary definition. In modern day parlance on social media, creep means unattractive, which tends to be defined in the eye of the beholder. This is why the "gym creep" trend became a thing earlier this year.
Creep = unattractive man. The complaints about creepiness always boils down to unattractive men offend me with their presence.
No, not always. When I hear the word "creep", I think of that quote from the guy in Dazed and Confused:
He wasn't the worst-looking dude. Ugly moustache, but otherwise handsome enough. Now imagine having family members, male or especially female, hanging around people like that, and tell me if you think that that's healthy.
Edit: A lot of people seem to disagree with me that this near-paedophilic quote is something reproachable. Interesting.
That's the original definition of the term. The guy you're responding to is pointing out that these days the term is mostly used to slander unattractive men for daring to exist by associating them with the kind of example you gave. Women often become enraged when a man they find unattractive approaches them because they take it as an insinuation that they're on the same level as someone they see as subhuman.
The term creep, like misogynist, racist, incel and other loaded words, has had their definitions extrapolated to go beyond the traditional dictionary definition. In modern day parlance on social media, creep means unattractive, which tends to be defined in the eye of the beholder. This is why the "gym creep" trend became a thing earlier this year.