You are playing with words here. /u/green_leaf’s point is that there are greater degrees of violation of sexual autonomy than what OP suffered through and that rape is usually used to describe something more severe. If someone used the word “rape” to describe OP’s experiences out of context to me it would be meaningfully misleading.
That sounds to me like saying that it is misleading to call somebody a thief when they are a shoplifter rather than a bank robber. Or that frauding for 2 million is not really theft when bank robbing for 100 000 is what theft looks like.
There are already quite a lot of intensifiers, so I have somewhat trouble thinking what would bump this to “proper” rape. It already has long duration. It already has threat of violence. I guess it doesn’t have lasting injuries or threat of death.
What kind of things would feel mislead about if encountering such a out of context representation? I think I am having a genuine grouping disagreement rather than just word-label disagreement.
I guess this kind of stuff is what they meant when there was an issue about whether to center the criminal definition of rape around use of violence or lack of consent.
While rape is usually used to describe something more severe, it’s also often pointing to one experience. The OP suffered regular sexual assault over months which is worse than just having one experience of sexual assault.
You are playing with words here. /u/green_leaf’s point is that there are greater degrees of violation of sexual autonomy than what OP suffered through and that rape is usually used to describe something more severe. If someone used the word “rape” to describe OP’s experiences out of context to me it would be meaningfully misleading.
That sounds to me like saying that it is misleading to call somebody a thief when they are a shoplifter rather than a bank robber. Or that frauding for 2 million is not really theft when bank robbing for 100 000 is what theft looks like.
There are already quite a lot of intensifiers, so I have somewhat trouble thinking what would bump this to “proper” rape. It already has long duration. It already has threat of violence. I guess it doesn’t have lasting injuries or threat of death.
What kind of things would feel mislead about if encountering such a out of context representation? I think I am having a genuine grouping disagreement rather than just word-label disagreement.
I guess this kind of stuff is what they meant when there was an issue about whether to center the criminal definition of rape around use of violence or lack of consent.
While rape is usually used to describe something more severe, it’s also often pointing to one experience. The OP suffered regular sexual assault over months which is worse than just having one experience of sexual assault.
I basically agree, as far as that goes.