I’m so glad I migrated to Lemmy. Holy shit.

  • PhoenixzEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Please stop with the r*pe thing. We all know you’re trying to say rape, it’s okay. We know you don’t condone it, you don’t support it, you’re merely talking about the subject and you’re not hiding what you’re talking about, we know it’s rape, it’s fine to talk about rape being a bad thing and using the actual word for that. We’re all adults here.

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      I genuinely want to know if it even helps people who feel triggered after reading the word. Does the * actually change things that much? Like you said, everyone knows what’s being said.

      • kitnaht@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        It’s tiktok brain. If say or type certain words over there you can be reported for it.

      • PhoenixzEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        It doesn’t do anything but virtue signalling

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      If people are actually triggered by any discussion of rape, then they might have a text filter set up to block posts containing the string “rape”… Which this post won’t get blocked by either.

      As an aside, presumably “sexual assault” is a better content warning flag than “rape”. More neutral and less emotionally loaded.

      • PhoenixzEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Well yeah, but at least rape is clear. I hate it when someone ralskt about how a woman had an indecent relationship with a young boy where a guy just plain raped a little girl.

        Call both what it is, rape

  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    139·
    3 months ago

    Rape is literally defined as penetration without consent. He’s right. That word has a definition, and using it to define something else muddies and belittles the word usage.

    It CAN be sexual assault though. And it doesn’t dismiss the trauma that the person has had to endure.

      • kitnaht@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
        34·
        3 months ago

        I mean, it depends on the situation but yeah - but not calling something rape when it isn’t rape, doesn’t mean you’re dismissing the persons trauma or saying what they experienced is any less damaging, it’s just using the correct wording. Nobody should be taking offense to that. It’s not surprising at all that the person who posted this is from blahaj.

          • kitnaht@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
            14·
            3 months ago

            Sexist against men, sure - but I don’t know the context of this screenshot, so I don’t know if that is or isn’t the issue here. That context isn’t provided, so I’m not going to comment further on that aspect.