The word "rapey"

Feminazi headquarters, Linguistic Obfuscation Specialist, Quarterly Report

Mistress:

A few months ago, a bitter neckbeard loser on the Internet cottoned on to our conceptual pincer attack of shaming misogynists as fatally ineffectual on the one hand, while calling in our White Knight Brigade by making the misogynists out to be uber-powerful on the other. We did not alert you to this (he is of course a total loser and will probably never get laid), but it did set our wheels turning down in LO. We have been expecting this for a while.

Fortunately, I am proud to report that the solution is (and was) already in place. We have since managed the seemingly impossible: a fusion of both ideas into one word. It is easy to spot contradictory ideas when they are presented separately---but when they are bound up in one word? Checkmate, misogynists!

The word, Mistress, is "rapey."

Now, we are of course familiar with the unmatched utility of the word "rape." It has faithfully served, when attached to just about anything, to bring the Knights to heel.

However, the problem that has plagued us is that "rape" is a very serious word, that means something. As such, even the most deluded of Knights could temporarily defect in cases where the inconvenient meaning was absent from actual circumstances. "Online rape," for instance, has still failed to gain traction (although this department still counts "raping [me/her] with his eyes" as a solid victory). Further, we were backstabbed by the unfortunate...fantasies...that some of our number have been having. Worse, some of the Knights noticed this and joined the ranks of the hated misogynists!

What we needed was a way to maximize a threat to get the Knights to fight, while casting our enemies as utterly incapable of actually achieving this threat, so as to avoid any more betrayals from the Sisterhood.

The word "rapey" solves all these problems. Observe:

--- What does it mean? Nothing! It means that something or someone "feels like rape." Of course, since our feelings are unfalsifiable, we can use it with impunity.

--- Its root is taken from 1.0, still bringing out the Knights.

--- (This, mistress, is the brilliant portion) Its ending, "-ey," is diminuitive, belittling---similar to a nickname we might use with a child. No one would call an actual rapist "rapey;" they'd call them a rapist! As such, whatever dangerous sick edge our hated enemies might acquire as a side effect of our labeling, has been successfully blunted.

Here's to a great rest of 2013!