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In case you missed the flagged comment, my case was with the way that comment was presented, in which the parent commenter's request was dismissed as political

• kbenson 11y ago
  I saw it, but I took your comment "trivializing sexual assault" as also applying towards your reasoning for the statement "I also resent your use of 'rape' in that context." and my comment was meant to address both.
  • rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
    Right. I just think rape is talked about too lightly, and when people do so it reflects poorly on them. Some things simply aren't appropriate to do in a public space, like nose-picking. It's not that they should be forbidden, but it won't win you many friends.
    • kbenson 11y ago
      And I understand that stance, I'm trying to point out that if you have that stance, you should also condemn talking lightly about murder (which you might), and if you don't, I think that requires justification, or a reexamination as to why rape is treated differently than murder. It's possible that it may be because of people pushing a (well intentioned) agenda. My personal view is that there is a misalignment here, and when these terms are used to describe something clearly as a metaphor then they should be treated similarly (or murder should be treated as the worse of the pair). I don't really care whether that means they are both taboo or both acceptable, but treating rape as taboo to use as a metaphor and murder as not is clearly inconsistent, given that murder is undeniably the worse crime.