Johnny, I don't think you should have apologized. You used the word exactly the way it's supposed to be used in inference. To infer.
To infer the idea of being raped,
which does not only mean raped as in physically penetrated
but raped as in pillaged, stolen from
. You said what you meant. You said it like a writer. With passionate description. There is nothing wrong with what you said,
only that some very vocal and well intentioned people insist that
the word raped is theirs now, and they claim it to mean one thing only,
hands off the word raped, apparently.
Hm. The sentence I just wrote was inadvertedly meaningful.
And I'm not sorry.
I'm sorry women are raped every day
and that this world is so confused and scared about what happens to us
we use our emotional and physical energies making a big shitstorm over nothing
when there are somethings that could use our attentions instead.
Like actual rape.
And actual assholes.
Which you are not.
