rape-rape
English
Noun
rape-rape (plural rape-rapes)
- rape in the traditional sense of being against someone's wishes when they have said no, in contrast to statutory rape where someone can say yes but their consent is not legally recognized due to age or intoxication
- 2009 Maev Kennedy, "Polanski was not guilty of 'rape-rape', says Whoopi Goldberg", The Guardian
- 2011 Jaclyn Friedman, "Once And For All, It's Time To Stop Blaming Rape On Women's Drinking", Jezebel
- With a bonus hierarchy set up between rapists who prey on drunk women, and rapists who use date rape drugs. Because there's rape, and there's rape-rape, amirite?
Verb
rape-rape (third-person singular simple present rape-rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)
- to rape when a person is actively refusing, as opposed to statutory situations where a yes is given but is legally invalid due to intoxication or youth
- 2015 Tasha Fierce, ""Asking For It" Puts the Focus for Ending Rape Where it Belongs: On Rapists", Bitch Media
- Harding’s dark humor is on-point when she describes anti-abortionists’ wrong-headed beliefs on women and rape:
- “There’s rape, and then there’s rape-rape. Women who are rape-raped don’t deserve to be punished with forty weeks of incubating the product of that assault, followed by the most physically painful experience known to human beings, which also happens to kill several hundred women a year in the United States and causes severe, life-threatening complications in over fifty thousand more. And that’s before you have to either give the baby up for adoption or raise your rapist’s child. But women who were merely ‘raped’? Yeah, they should probably have to endure all that.”
- It’s worth noting this is only one of probably 50 passages I could cite from Asking For It that made me nearly die laughing.
- Harding’s dark humor is on-point when she describes anti-abortionists’ wrong-headed beliefs on women and rape:
- 2015 Tasha Fierce, ""Asking For It" Puts the Focus for Ending Rape Where it Belongs: On Rapists", Bitch Media
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