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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I really don't know why I keep doing it.
Sebby: "I don't like this word because things in my head."
Everyone: "But it has an actual meaning that is useful."
Sebby: "No it doesn't because I think it means all this other shit."
Everyone: "But here's the definition. And here are examples of how it's used effectively."
Sebby: "I don't use it that way because I have assigned a bunch of other shit to it that no one else does and that's how it's used at my made-up cocktail parties too."
Everyone smashes head against wall again.
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I can't assign
anything to rape culture. It swallows all concepts around both rape itself and apologists for rape and sexual assault.
But I do know just a little bit about grammar, and when you add "culture" to a word, it usually means a culture that embraces a thing. "Car culture," "art culture," "gun culture," etc. So any person who's not involved in the academic communities that discuss "rape culture" would hear "rape culture" and think,
Wait a minute... Is there a culture that's into rape? WTF? And then, of course, you'd swoop in with your totally clear definition from Wikipedia (the whole paragraph's worth of it, incorporating numerous discrete concepts) and say, "No, in this instance, we're using 'culture' to define people who apologize for sexual assault." The person hearing this would then assume, as I have here,
That's pretty inartful. Why the fuck wouldn't you just call it what it is: Rape Denial, or Rape Apologism.
Apologism isn't a word, but never mind that. We're making up words here!
