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A wholesome day trip and a violation of privacy share one innocent-looking word.
means An outing is a short pleasure trip away from home — or, in its newer sense, the act of publicly revealing someone's private status, especially their sexual orientation, without consent.
from From the humble preposition 'out' plus the noun-making '-ing,' so literally 'a going out.' The leisure sense — a jaunt, an excursion — has been around for centuries, the spirit of stepping out into fresh air. The privacy-violating sense is far younger, born of the gay-rights vocabulary of the late 20th century, where 'coming out' (itself short for 'coming out of the closet') was an act of self-revelation; to 'out' someone flipped that agency, making the revealing something done TO a person rather than BY them.
- double life
- Means both a fun excursion and exposing someone's secret
- old roots
- Originally just meant going out and about
- victorian leisure
- Family outings boomed with cheap rail travel
- forced reveal
- Outing someone closeted is widely considered a betrayal
- hunting echo
- Once described days dedicated to sport or game
ellen degeneres coming out — tv host publicly revealed her sexual orientation on her sitcom in 1997, becoming one of the first major celebrities to do so on television
operation choke point — 2013 doj program that publicly exposed and targeted financial services for high-risk businesses, forcing major banks to drop customers