Random Thought

Can everybody please stop using the term “date rape?” And please, can we stop calling them “date rape drugs?”

Please?

Rape.

Rape drugs.

First of all, who goes on dates anymore? And second, we all know what conservatives are implying when they talk about “date rape” instead of “rape” (especially when they put it in bleeping quotation marks). They’re purposely using language that implies a kind of rape that somehow isn’t as serious, that maybe was the victim’s fault… that maybe wasn’t really rape at all.

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  AGREED.

  Cara on April 28th, 2008
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  [...] What Ashley said. [...]

  Feminist (and Anti-Feminist) Links : The Curvature on April 28th, 2008
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  [...] with a bump into furniture or from other causes.” As far as the claim that Day gave Ross a rape drug, defense counsel responded, “neither Day, nor anyone else for that matter, would have to use [...]

  Cognosco :: What Year is This? (or, ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hate) :: May :: 2008 on May 15th, 2008
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  [...] with a bump into furniture or from other causes.” As far as the claim that Day gave Ross a rape drug, defense counsel responded, “neither Day, nor anyone else for that matter, would have to use [...]

  Boycott Days Inn « The Feminist Texican on June 18th, 2008

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