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The-R-Word: an account of child rape and abuse from the perspective of an abused male.

NickWasHere09

June 26, 2012

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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/features/9766-The-R-Word

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Title	The-R-Word: an account of child rape and abuse from the perspective of an abused male.
Author	NickWasHere09
Upvotes	36
Comments	17
Date	June 26, 2012 10:08 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/vniao/therword_an_account_of_child_rape_and_abuse_from/
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[–]Grapeban -1 points0 points1 point 14 years ago (16 children) | Copy Link

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As a side-note: If you don't consider yourself an MRA, why do you refer to the community as "we"?

Habit I picked up from debating at school, when I argue or discuss I tend to use "we", makes me seem a bit... odd sometimes, othertimes it makes me look insincere or two-faced.

Look pal, I used the example 'beat', and seeing as physical assault is a lot more common than rape and often very traumatic, chances are more people's feelings will be hurt by 'misusing' that word than by the misuse of the word 'rape'. Why are they and their feelings not to be considered?

Firstly: "Rape" is a more clear trigger than "beat". Beat can mean several things, rape, unless you're talking about the plant, means rape.

Secondly: Because it's not used in the same way as "rape". People don't go, "I'm gonna beat you! Prepare to get beat!" in the same way people go, "I'm gonna rape you! Prepared to get raped!"

Thirdly: I imagine you don't know the context behind the article. Basically, discussion of the use of "rape" has been common on The Escapist recently, due to recent events, like the Tomb Raider thing. So it's topical.

For one thing, it intertwined with the occurrance of using words such as 'rape' so lightly. For another, he did bring it up, and implied that he believed in it.

Yes, but the article isn't about rape culture, there's no need to bring it up. But if we're going to have this argument about whether or not it exists, permit me to trawl my posts to scavenge for stuff I've already said, I'm unwilling to have this argument again.

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