Reply #85: I am not touting anything. My experience re womens issues is entirely academic. As

[Monk06]

I said while your field experience in sexual
assault support is exemplary there is a continuing
tendency of support workers such as yourself to get
bogged down in terminology. This is counter productive
IMO and indicative of a bureaucratic mentality that is
becoming increasingly dominant in society.

Again, 'respecting the terminology used by people
who have experienced it' is a form of bureaucratic
language that implies that incest/rape victims are
ignored misunderstood or disrespected. I need some
evidence for that beyond a bureaucratic fiat. Incest
is one of the most ancient taboos in every society.
Calling it family rape is guilding the lily.

If someone who has suffered rape from a family member
or simply says my dad makes me have sex with him, then
it is rape whether the victim calls it that or not.

Really I think this is a non issue. I can think of no
one, (and I am personally aware of a couple of cases)
who did not consider their experience of incest as anything
other than non consensual.