I don't think I've heard 'groper' to describe the actor when it's a human assailant either though?

And 'dig' is a tool that searches (or 'digs') for certain information - one (and only one) of the meanings fits!

I'm not really interested in an argument about it, and I'm certainly not holding anything against or taking Evans to task over it, as I said initially it just seems like a misunderstanding or that the commenters were rude about it to me.

I thought TFA was otherwise excellent and I've enjoyed (& learnt from) her writing on many occasions.