Who was the genius who came up with sex pest? First time I saw it was in a letter to the editor of the Daily News, by a woman making reference to Andrew Cuomo.
“Perfect,” I was thinking. Not quite a sexual assaulter or criminal, but someone whose hands and mouth were not staying in their corner of the room. Someone who deserved a smack on the face.
Moreover, the term “sex pest,” especially the word “pest,” is a dimunition of the asshole who deserves the label. Not scary, really, but a man who hasn’t outgrown his early adolescence. A pest, like a cockroach. Or a maggot, say.
From all we hear, Trump is worse than a sex pest; he’s an aggressive assaulter, a rapist. But still, when I think of the swollen lump known as Trump, calling him a sex pest to his face would feel vindicatory. Condemn him and shrink him simultaneously.
Sex pest.