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In reply to the discussion: the biggest problem for women in america [View all]xulamaude
(847 posts)57. "daily rape"
Call it a peeve of mine but when 'wage slavery' or kicking someone's ass in a video game is characterized as "rape" I am offended.
I am offended for myself and for every other person who has ever actually been raped: The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
The third definition of rape (plunder or pillage) refers to when women were property and where the intent of stealing 'another man's woman' was to literally rape her in an effort to either impregnate her or make her non-valuable to the man from whom she was 'stolen'.
Being a wage slave is NOT anything like "daily rape" unless you are a trafficked person/child.
I am asking as nicely as I can to please not use the word rape in this context.
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I think climate change is the greatest threat to America and the rest of the globe
NoOneMan
Dec 2013
#5
People could think about complex interactions in the 19th century; intersectionality is old wine
El_Johns
Dec 2013
#43
Systemic actual rape of women has absolutely nil to do with unfair wages.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#7
Power manifests itself in many ways. To understand that is to be multitalented.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#23
As I stated first, actual rape of women has nothing to do with the pay gap.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#27
I understand what you're talking about and your argument is not new to me.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#35
"Poverty is among the root causes of sexual violence and has a daily presence in the lives of many
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#71
would be an absolute dismissal of victims of rape. as long as you recognize what you stand by. nt
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#78
Frederick Engels "Within the family (man) is the bourgeois and the wife represents the proletariat."
Starry Messenger
Dec 2013
#11
the biggest problem for women in america is men telling us what our biggest problem is, and whining
niyad
Dec 2013
#16
quite the contrary. the adjective "most important" implies other problems
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#47
Thank you- to write this OP about how women's concerns are always secondary ....
bettyellen
Dec 2013
#51
If he had phrased it as about class exploitation as a central problem facing America
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#25
It's just a complete coincidence that it came in the midst of GD threads about rape culture
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#36
while class issue is a big issue and hits us all, we also know within our class there are misogynist
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#86
or simply a dismissal of womens issues? can we find common gorund. absolutely. do we do it at the
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#72
Seems the biggest problem is expressing an opinion without bouncing it off HOF first. lol
Demo_Chris
Dec 2013
#34
the regression of womens' reproductive rights is indeed one of the most important issues in American
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#54