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If you think people would misunderstand “rape” in this way, I’d suggest you spend your effort educating people who don’t understand the word, rather than trying
by mikeash 7y ago
If you think people would misunderstand “rape” in this way, I’d suggest you spend your effort educating people who don’t understand the word, rather than trying to “correct” people using the word to mean what it means.
- HunOL 7y agoWell, solution would be introducing two new terms to solve this problem.
- mikeash 7y agoWe already have different terms for different kinds of rape. For example, statutory rape, aggravated rape, forcible rape. You can shout at clouds and try to change the language if you want, but that’s an extremely unproductive and entirely pointless path to take.