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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Grooming" to me always implied the actions of an individual, with the intent of generating a sexual relationship with that one person. It's got a level of intent that the lady at the grocery store calling me a "handsome young man" and then never seeing me again doesn't have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't really matter what it is to you when it has a hard and established definition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nothing you say matters to me though, and thanks to solipsism, that's all that matters!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ok. Feel better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Well grooming doesn't have to be an individual, and it doesn't have to be sexual. Kids are groomed in school to go to college. The word means to train/prepare for. Training someone for something can be good thing or a bad thing. Or anything in between.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but usually in these types of conversations people use "grooming" in a much more specific (and negative) connotation