"The rise of rape talk"

[randomshenans]

No.

Now it's arousing.

LOL

Ah it's only a word and I use it all the time. Particularly to my GF, but I also tell her I'm going to push her down the stairs so you know.

 

[Pestilence]

Not really. If I knew someone who'd actually been raped, I wouldn't go "Pfft, that's nothing" just because it's bandied around with a different meaning in a completely unrelated situation. Just like you don't go "You've got AIDS? Lol AIDS" in real life, unless you're an utter ****.

Context is kinda crucial here.

...but, but, but THERE'S NO ROOM FOR CONTEXT WHEN YOU LOVE TO BE OFFENDED!!!!

 

[Cosimo]

David Haye can say whatever the **** he wants in my opinion, he's a better man than 99% of the rest of the country anyway.

That doesn’t say very much about your judgement of people.

 

[sanaxe1]

I think its very ironic that the word rape is being raped of its meaning.

 

[Cosimo]

The people that use it in everyday conversation don't have the intellectual capacity to think of another form of English to use in its place. They’re just sheep following the latest fad flock.

 

[Egon]

Offensive and stupid.

Keep it reserved for actual rape, or examples of suitably violent abuse or damage to something.

Agreed, along with the use Gay, in the context of being rubbish and AIDS.... well I've never understood the context of this.

Stupid and Immature IMO. I teach in a 6th for college and hear these terms used day in and day out. I'm probably naively assuming it's an age thing and they'll grow out of it when they get older as at the minute they all think it's hilarious

It's also probably a lack of vocabulary. Edit: As simulatorman so eloquently put it above ^^

 

[Andy]

The people that use it in everyday conversation don't have the intellectual capacity to think of another form of English to use in its place. They’re just sheep following the latest fad flock.

It is BANTER. It is a JEST.

Get off your No swearing, disguised or not! highhorseand get some friends

 

[Amnesia]

Agreed, along with the use Gay, in the context of being rubbish and AIDS.... well I've never understood the context of this.

Stupid and Immature IMO. I teach in a 6th for college and hear these terms used day in and day out. I'm probably naively assuming it's an age thing and they'll grow out of it when they get older as at the minute they all think it's hilarious

It's also probably a lack of vocabulary.

they got a crap teacher tbh

 

[Gilly]

I can't see the problem with anything other than the entire waste of time that was the Guardian article.

I use it all the time. In fact I both raped and got raped at MW2 last night.

Likewise. In fact, someone accused me of raping them hard with an aeroplane!

 

[cHk4]

I've used the word for about 12 years so not a latest fad flock for me.

 

[ikillbears]

Just like you don't go "You've got AIDS? Lol AIDS" in real life, unless you're an utter ****.

Unless its the bad AIDS from the bumming. Wouldn't do it to some one with good AIDS

 

[sanaxe1]

Agreed, along with the use Gay, in the context of being rubbish [/I]

So how come its ok for the word Gay to evolve from being happy to homosexual but the word is no longer allowed to evolve to a new meaning? is there a limit to the amount of times a word can change its meaning?

 

[arc@css]

I'm sweating like a rapist with the police at the door.

I really shouldn't have but I did lol.

 

[Ghosteh]

I use it many times when I'm knackered after a hard phys session, if I've been out on the lash, or if I get owned in a game lol.
I've got personal reasons why I shouldn't find it funny, but I'll continue to use the word.

 

[4T5]

the-rise-of-rape-talk

Personally I use the word all the time.

Personally i call it surprise sex.

 

[Weebull]

Actually, do you know what is offensive? People assuming that because I might laugh at, or make a rape joke, I'm therefore unable to grasp the seriousness of actual rape, were it to happen.

Rubbish.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

I had a guy refuse to speak to me on the phone the other day simply because I wanted to order some rapeseed oil, he thought I was having a laugh.

I wouldn't casually bandy the word about and only use it where applicable though some of my friends tend to find it amusing to use in everyday conversation.

 

[Gilly]

What I find most offensive is these jumped-up ****ing hacks getting offended on everyone else's behalf.

 

[KNiVES]

Not really. If I knew someone who'd actually been raped, I wouldn't go "Pfft, that's nothing" just because it's bandied around with a different meaning in a completely unrelated situation. Just like you don't go "You've got AIDS? Lol AIDS" in real life, unless you're an utter ****.

Context is kinda crucial here.

I realize this, but I was getting at that when somebody says 'man I feel like I was raped' after participating in a marathon, it doesn't really view the marathon at the same level as being raped. It just erodes the severity of rape in the social consciousness.

It chips away and eventually people will go so what, it comes up in casual conversation all the time, it can't be that bad. To an extent, people are less inhibited to call each other ******* because of the same problem. It was one of the worst racial epithets from a distant time when it had connotations with the lynch mobs and violent segregations, now it's largely trivialized. Most kids these days don't even know where the word originated from and now they just run around calling each other *******. That is an example of a word that has received the same treatment rape is currently going through, and eventually it will find its way into the common verbiage. Do we really want rape to be frequently mentioned as an everyday part of conversation, no matter what the actual subject matter may be?

It has found acceptance through widespread use without anyone really understanding what the original connotations or meaning is.

I'm not really all that offended by it, but O Lord, you are weird if you think it's alright to have it as part of the daily lexicon.

 

[Egon]

So how come its ok for the word Gay to evolve from being happy to homosexual but the word is no longer allowed to evolve to a new meaning? is there a limit to the amount of times a word can change its meaning?

Of course not, I don't dispute this. But I'd honestly question why the use of Gay has been adapted to this context.