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This post in particular is addressed to men, not because women don’t rape and women don’t make/laugh at rape jokes and not because men can’t be raped, but because, by nature of the existing gender disparity, men are in a unique position to be taken seriously when they raise objections to…

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I have tried for so much of my life to get the word “rape” relating to things like an exam (“that exam just raped me”) out of the vocabulary of my friends, my colleagues, the kids I’ve counselled at camp. I always did it because I knew the high percentage of women who’d suffered from sexual assault, and figured that the comments could make them feel very uncomfortable, maybe bring up terrible memories and push them to the verge of tears and depression, but they would say nothing because nobody wants to be that person in the group who says, “I’ve been raped. I find that comment offensive.”

Now I have an even better argument to get people to stop throwing the word “rape” around.