Really odd that I made a forum thread about the word rape today and this article pops up and Jim's thing on rape.
I don't know, I just can't wrap my head around what rape victims feel no matter how many different accounts I hear. While I haven't been raped in my life, I did have someone try to kill me. I got stabbed in the back, which left a 2x2x2inch gash in my back, I spent like 12 hours in the hospital and got well over 100 stitches in my back. The scan showed that my the wound had almost reached my kidney and a few more millimeters would've meant death. But I don't cringe at the word stabbed. Nor when I see killing animations in halo like the back stab does it bring fleeting memories of fear, coming in an out of consciousness, feeling the coldest I've ever felt in my life.
While I personally won't use the word insulting someone and what not, I just can't really get behind a issue I don't get.
I don't know, I just can't wrap my head around what rape victims feel no matter how many different accounts I hear. While I haven't been raped in my life, I did have someone try to kill me. I got stabbed in the back, which left a 2x2x2inch gash in my back, I spent like 12 hours in the hospital and got well over 100 stitches in my back. The scan showed that my the wound had almost reached my kidney and a few more millimeters would've meant death. But I don't cringe at the word stabbed. Nor when I see killing animations in halo like the back stab does it bring fleeting memories of fear, coming in an out of consciousness, feeling the coldest I've ever felt in my life.
While I personally won't use the word insulting someone and what not, I just can't really get behind a issue I don't get.