Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24077689-20131217152649

TBC - I agreed with Necro on the subject of homophobic slurs and the relative effect that those terms have on the respective parties. I disagreed with you on the usage of the word "retard", as a different subject altogether.

To play Call of Duty, say, and kill someone and say something like "haha, I just raped that guy" trivializes the term. It makes it something desirable or laughable. Archaic definitions aside, most people don't understand or know those definitions. They say rape as in sexual assault, as in domination via sexual assault. We should be doing all we can to stop that in its tracks, I've read and seen them ultimately deleted, but some new users really trivialize rape in their stories, not treating it with respect in any way. They almost fetishize it. That's the kind of activity that we need to nip in the bud, not just on the wiki but everywhere. Rape culture already a massive problem in our society, it's getting unfortunately more prevalent. I don't think we should encourage it through outright allowance.