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When I was in college 20 years ago in Boulder the local feminists would get upset when people didn't say "assualt", or if they modified it with "sexual". I alwa
by damoncali 13y ago
When I was in college 20 years ago in Boulder the local feminists would get upset when people didn't say "assualt", or if they modified it with "sexual". I always maintained that assault wasn't as bad as rape or "sexual assault", but they wanted nothing of it.
- SwellJoe 13y agoThat's an odd collection of feminists, though there are a variety of thoughts on how best to serve the victims of rape and how best to make it understood that rape is a crime of violence (and not merely a harmless act of overzealous sexual desire). I don't think it is common among my friend circle (who are mostly all feminists) to call rape anything other than rape.