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Katie Lucas Mad At Some SW Fans

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Checkmate said:
Trekker4747 said:
Apparently I'm a self-righteous asshole for pointing out that the word "rape" has more than one meaning beyond the one that says "sexual violation."

Sorry for being a huge fucking, ignorant, retarded shitstain of a lousy low life human being who knows what the fuck words mean and that they have different meanings.

Maybe tonight would be a good night for me to finally put a bullet through my fucking head and make all of you happy.
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If that was in response to my comment, you have it completely backwards. People around here only seem to know one definition of any given word, and only the most negative, hate-filled use thereof.
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More of a response to those in another thread in another forum who somehow construe my posts here in a different meaning.

Apparently I'm a terrible person who's a troll just because I know what words mean and that when someone says "raped my childhood" I know they're not lessening the severity of actual sexual rape and that I know it's being said in a hyperbolic manner to mean to pillage. You know, one of the other definitions for the word "rape."

But, whatever, apparently I'm the trolling asshole no one likes.
 
You know very well what the common usage of the word "rape" is, and when people say "George Lucas raped my childhood" they really mean "George Lucas fucked my childhood in the ass without lube", not that he "pillaged my childhood just like a medieval village".

Citing alternate definitions is just splitting hairs and deflecting from what's really going on in the discussion. Just because a word can have another meaning that gets used 1% of the time doesn't take away from the other 99% of what it represents in society.
 
Words have more than one meaning.

"Rape" means than just a sexual violation. That's not splitting hairs that's what words are. They have different meanings.

Rape also means to pillage, it doesn't only mean to sexually violate.

Even if people say it and they mean it in the way of sexual violation they're hardly equating it to actual rape. It's called hyperbole and in no way does saying it take away from the crime.
 
Brian said:
You know very well what the common usage of the word "rape" is, and when people say "George Lucas raped my childhood" they really mean "George Lucas fucked my childhood in the ass without lube", not that he "pillaged my childhood just like a medieval village".
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And why do you assume that? Abusing and plundering makes far more sense in the context of the phrase than sexual assault does. In fact, a sexual assault doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Citing alternate definitions is just splitting hairs and deflecting from what's really going on in the discussion. Just because a word can have another meaning that gets used 1% of the time doesn't take away from the other 99% of what it represents in society.
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That, or it's people like you who give more power to words than they deserve. You're the reason there's an issue at all, as opposed to a crass, outdated phrase that few if any use in any serious fashion whatsoever.

The worst part is that you think your narrowly defined, hate-filled world makes you some kind of angelic intellectual when all you can do is vomit forth hate and negativity.
 
I've never understood why creators or writers (Katie Lucas does write for Clone Wars) do a public rage on the assholes in their respective fanbases? Wouldn't the point better be served by being a calm counter point to the a-holes and trolls and not give 'em more ammo by letting them see they got to you?
 
Common usage, guys. Common usage.

Putting on your spectacles and running to the dictionary to pick apart peoples' reactions to the common usage of words is trolling, just trying to stir shit for the fun of it, arguing semantics for argument's sake.

So go ahead, have fun and pile on. It doesn't change what most people will tell you "rape" means when asked.
 
I didn't have to run to a dictionary to know that "rape" means also to pillage or plunder and has more than one meaning. All words have more than one meaning!

When people said "rape my childhood" I always took it in the meaning of the pillage or otherwise ruin. Not that, somehow, Lucas was sexually violating a period in people's lives.

You want to use the PC, lilly-white, clean world where rape only means evil sexual-things and nothing else!!!

Words have more than one meaning and based on context you can usually tell which meaning is being used. "Raped my childhood" means to pillage it, to destroy it through the alteration of the movies.

And even if it were taken to mean a sexual violation that shouldn't take away from the actual crime.
 
Katie,

Just sit back and cash the checks. No one cares what you think.

Thanks!
Star Wars fans
 
Brian said:
Common usage, guys. Common usage.
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... is a silly argument since "common usage" applies just as much to the "plunder and pillage" usage as the "forceful sex without consent" usage.

Putting on your spectacles and running to the dictionary to pick apart peoples' reactions to the common usage of words is trolling, just trying to stir shit for the fun of it, arguing semantics for argument's sake.
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Using a word's actual definition is bad? :confused:

So go ahead, have fun and pile on. It doesn't change what most people will tell you "rape" means when asked.
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:confused: :confused: :confused: Is this Bizarro World?

What a strange sequence of arguments!

Interesting Factoid: "Rape" comes to us from the Latin "Rapere" which means "to seize by force".
 
BillJ said:
Katie,

Just sit back and cash the checks. No one cares what you think.

Thanks!
Star Wars fans
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You use a word that 99% of people associate with a certain act, and think they should have assumed you meant an alternate definition? That's bizarro world.
 
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You use a word that 99% of people associate with a certain act, and think they should have assumed you meant an alternate definition? That's bizarro world.
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If used in a vacuum, yes, that is the default definition. When used in context, its actual definition becomes obvious. Unless it's being read by someone like you, apparently.
 
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You use a word that 99% of people associate with a certain act, and think they should have assumed you meant an alternate definition? That's bizarro world.
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Since it's not actual possible to sexually "rape" someone's childhood, what the hell definition do you think people are supposed to assume?

Are you claiming that "rape" can never be used in a way that does not suggest "sexual assault" of some kind?
 
You're quibbling, really.

I don't care if rape means "slapped me fiercely" to some people. George Lucas hasn't even done that much to the interminable whiners.

Katie Lucas had the temerity to draw attention to how childish, entitled, mean and irrational some people are on the Internet when strangers don't give them what they want, and not surprising some people on the Internet have their noses out of joint that someone talked back to them.
 
Google == Common Usage

Definition cited as archaic in M-W Dictionary == Fodder for Internet Trolling
 
The phrase "rape my childhood" is in poor taste.

Being in poor taste is a good enough reason not to use it, even if one can connect dots in a dictionary to show that it is a logically correct metaphor.

It's also pretty clearly inflammatory, in its level of hyperbole and in its selection of metaphorical terms. Being inflammatory is also a good enough reason not to use it.

Oh wait, you want to troll. Never mind.
 
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