I don’t really want to pile on you, since a lot of people have already addressed why the phrasing here is upsetting. I just want to suggest that, in future, if this sort of situation comes up, there are ways to split the difference. If you are concerned about using the word “rape” because that isn’t the exact wording…

Ugh, that commenter appears to be a piece of shit.

No worries about the trigger. It was actually good. Writing that down made me angrier than fucking hell and I hope I never forget the rage I feel about when I first heard what happened to my dear friend nor what happened during it all.

I am sooooo sorry that triggered you.

Many news outlets also refused to use “torture” to describe US torture of prisoners. The US refused to call the Egyptian coup a “coup” because by law if it were a coup we couldn’t keep selling arms to them. Obama promised to call the Armenian Genocide a “Genocide” but has refused for the past 8 years to do so so as to…

Most jurisdictions do not use the word “rape” anymore and haven’t for a while. I’m not buying her excuse.

As I see it, the bulk of each large problem facing our society is made up of numerous, tiny pieces. There’s really no way of avoiding tackling the minute details. You could write an article about an overall trend of similar smaller incidences of something, but it will mostly likely not catch the particular context of…

Totally. That excuse is just that, an excuse. How hard would it be on an alleged feminist blog to say, “Whoops, you know you’re right, let me fix that.” Two seconds and done. OP is full of something.

So because the DOJ and the Post are gutless turds, that gives you a pass?

God damn it. In my anger I neglected to mention a critical part. The defense claimed she made those allegations to try and get money out of the rich defendants. Mind you, her family was very well off but apparently she wanted three really rich adult men to rape her at the age of 14 to get that sweet money. It was…

Maybe it’s paranoia over Gawker Media being sued, again. I think it’s safe to say that a convicted “sex” trafficker (for smuggling her across borders, I’m guessing) and “sex” tourist (for travelling to El Salvador to rape her, most likely) is not going to have a case anywhere near comparable to the whole Hulk Hogan…

I hope that young girl is far, far away from her family and receiving real help. She’s got such a long road ahead of her.

Good lord. Are you joking? Did it occur to you to question why these sources were also avoiding the term, and that maybe they were wrong in doing so?

Courtesy of www.merriam-webster.com:

“Definition of rape

Irrelevant in terms of their impact on the actions of the accused. The defense was trying to use the actions of the girl’s family as a mitigating circumstance on behalf of his client, and the judge wasn’t having it.

I just watched an episode of Dark Net (from a couple of months ago) about how Cebu in the Philippines has one of the fastest growing levels of high speed internet in the world.

Sexual assault, sexualized violence, sex trafficking, forced sex. All terms that could be used that wouldn’t imply consensual sex occurred between a sex trafficked child and a grown man.

So this is a story from my past and it is difficult to retell and I rarely have. What you just wrote triggered something within in and yeah, it’s time.

When did tippy-toeing around dominant culture terminology become more important than presenting a feminist analysis around here?

after the girl tried to commit suicide