Comments on: More Government Obsession With Calling Rape Anything Other Than “Rape” http://thecurvature.com/2007/12/19/more-government-obsession-with-calling-rape-anything-other-than-rape/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pizzadiavola http://thecurvature.com/2007/12/19/more-government-obsession-with-calling-rape-anything-other-than-rape/#comment-2713 pizzadiavola Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:56:35 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/2007/12/19/more-government-obsession-with-calling-rape-anything-other-than-rape/#comment-2713 Argh. If the judges were really concerned with preventing rape, they'd pass sentences that would punish (and deter) rapists. No, what they're concerned with is just protecting their own delicate psyches so they can pretend that people don't actually get raped. Because rape is awful and it would be so awful if all these people were raped, right? It's better to pretend that it was just vaguely consensual, childish experimentation! Argh. If the judges were really concerned with preventing rape, they’d pass sentences that would punish (and deter) rapists. No, what they’re concerned with is just protecting their own delicate psyches so they can pretend that people don’t actually get raped. Because rape is awful and it would be so awful if all these people were raped, right? It’s better to pretend that it was just vaguely consensual, childish experimentation!

]]> By: wellie http://thecurvature.com/2007/12/19/more-government-obsession-with-calling-rape-anything-other-than-rape/#comment-2706 wellie Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:02:19 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/2007/12/19/more-government-obsession-with-calling-rape-anything-other-than-rape/#comment-2706 people are terrified of the word rape. they're terrified of the stigma it brings, of the horrors it instills in the hearts and minds of those experiencing and discussing it. therefore, they try and remove or change it whenever they think they can get away with it. THIS DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY. It doesn't make it permissable, invisible, accepted or tolerable. rape is a pitiful, powerful, pathetically disgusting and violent crime. and the term SHOULD bring about angry, sad, and fearful feelings. gods, it makes me sick to see this time and again! <i>O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet</i> changing the name does NOT change the crime. shakespeare nailed it with that one (though admittedly, juliet saying this wasn't his intent, lol) judges, politicians, etc. need to knock it off already. people are terrified of the word rape. they’re terrified of the stigma it brings, of the horrors it instills in the hearts and minds of those experiencing and discussing it. therefore, they try and remove or change it whenever they think they can get away with it. THIS DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY. It doesn’t make it permissable, invisible, accepted or tolerable. rape is a pitiful, powerful, pathetically disgusting and violent crime. and the term SHOULD bring about angry, sad, and fearful feelings. gods, it makes me sick to see this time and again!
O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet

changing the name does NOT change the crime. shakespeare nailed it with that one (though admittedly, juliet saying this wasn’t his intent, lol) judges, politicians, etc. need to knock it off already.

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