mrgah 🌱the whole thing is v much worth reading:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/30/16644394/language-sexual-violence
the problem of naming sexual violence is a profound one, and we're running up against a huge amount of cultural inertia
even rape, which seems like a natural category, was blurred for a long time with other kinds of injury to a woman who was under the legal control of a man (abduction, seduction, elopement)
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