Dear media...it is not child abuse

[nadinbrzezinski]

It s not sex...

It is RAPE! There, I feel better.

Some of you are doing better than others but kindly use the R word

[d_r]

1. but that is a type of child abuse

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Yes, but they can't bring themselves to say it

[WinkyDink]

2. It isn't only one victim, so the rubric "child abuse" fits.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. It is serial rape

[JuniperLea]

3. But... is it "rape rape?"

You know, these four-letter words need parsed!

:banghead:

[Happyhippychick]

6. Thank you

[Happyhippychick]

7. Thank you

[malaise]

8. 100% correct

rec

[nc4bo]

9. This exactly how I refer to it. Child rape scandal.

And if it makes people uncomfortable to hear it outloud and in public, good. That's the whole point.

[enough]

10. They are deliberately using the milder more general term because the actual

events as described (plain rape, no qualifiers needed) are too obviously terrible and not subject to obfuscation.

You're right. It's rape, not maybe, not sort of, not statutory, not "date," etc.

[femrap]

11. Males are

sodomized, not raped. That is reserved for females...but females can be sodomized as well.

It's a sick, sick world w/ evil people where one least expects them.

[fishwax]

12. not all of the incidents involved rape

But you're right re: sex.

[Odin2005]

13. How long before Whoopi comes and says it wasn't "RAPE rape"?