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Originally Posted by Lune
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Do you see any use in having a distinction between:
"I got drunk with my boyfriend and we had sex. I couldn't consent because I was drunk/passing in and out of consciousness"
"I was held down and violently beaten and raped by a tri-legged 6'6 black man in a dark alley"
Both these scenarios are described by the same word. Should they have the same punishment? Should they be aggregated under the same statistic?
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I don't have the answer for that, but maybe it shouldn't. Maybe our lexicon needs updating, and maybe we need different terms for the varying degrees in which rape can be committed. I can assure you that won't happen anytime soon, so in the meantime I'm going to keep calling it what it is.