Something has been bugging me for a while about posts here: the use of phrases like 'we're going to rape team x'. It is unnecessary and distasteful. More worryingly, for me, it serves to normalise rape as that something just happens.
Rape culture is a problem with which our entire society has to struggle. Football (along with other institutions that collect groups of young men together) has a particular problem. When fans say something like "we are going to rape you this week' it fits within that culture.
Changing the culture means changing the way we think about rape (both the term and the concept).
All I am asking is that before using 'rape' in a post, we all think whether there is a suitable alternative to use.
I know I'm probably out on my own with this one but feel I need to say something about it.
Rape culture is a problem with which our entire society has to struggle. Football (along with other institutions that collect groups of young men together) has a particular problem. When fans say something like "we are going to rape you this week' it fits within that culture.
Changing the culture means changing the way we think about rape (both the term and the concept).
All I am asking is that before using 'rape' in a post, we all think whether there is a suitable alternative to use.
I know I'm probably out on my own with this one but feel I need to say something about it.
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