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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It is a challenge to use language precisely to capture a complex phenomenon that manifests in different ways. I agree with you that the meaning of the term is not self-evident. OTOH, people use the words "wind" and "weather" all the time, and those phenomena are pretty diverse too. It's hard to avoid the sense that you and Adder (eta: and TM) are actually disagreeing about what the world is like, or should be like, and that disagreement is playing out through semantics.
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No. I agree there are certain archaic and loathsome attitudes toward sexual assault. I think there are loads of excellent, adult terms which capture each facet of it. Simplifying it down to the blunt “rape culture” is an attempt to hyperbolize, sensationalize, and generalize. It’s a college kid’s word. It’s not proper for serious conversation, and I think it actually inhibits serious conversation. You can’t accuse a person of being a part of rape culture and expect them to offer a measured reply.
It’s all about semantics. My gripe here is with shit language and oversimplification.
Social media and attendant short attention spans have caused this McLanguage. And it sucks. Makes people sound like idiots.
