Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24486926-20131214045349

Noothgrush wrote: CalasanX wrote: Noothgrush wrote: CalasanX wrote: I was a rape victim myself, as well. The jokes don't bother me much, tbh, but they're inappropriate for this space.

We have a few LGBT members, so I don't think just "gay" should be an instant ban: "tranny", "she-male", "half-gay", etc. should all be an instant ban. Anything insulting to the community as a whole, not just the homosexual community. Calasan, it's great they don't bother you, but rape is literally one of the worst things you can do to another person. It's terrible and isn't something to be joked about, and making rape jokes is severely fucked up, in my mind it makes it seem like A) you think rape is funny or inconsequential and therefore a joke or B) you think rape is an acceptable thing and you're willing to downplay the severity of what it is.

I agree that we should outright ban discriminatory terms, even those that may not be being used in a strictly insulting-to-the-group manner like "gay". I do agree. They don't bother me, but as I said, they're not appropriate for this space, ie the chat. I can't do anything about real life. Just saying. I get that. It's just something that really irks me. My wife is a rape victim, a couple of my friends are. And yet I still have idiot friends that think it's cool to make light of that. Or even worse, I had one friend that was going to go to the bars with the intention of getting girls drunk to sleep with them, while he remained sober. I talked him out of that horrible fucking idea, but it took a while to get it through his head that it's rape. My friends are morons.

Sorry, I'm done. I'm sorry. I know how it feels to be a victim, but I don't think I could imagine standing on the side with idiotic friends like that. The only reason they don't bother me is because I've seen worse, but in truth, they can be irritating and hurtful.

Again, though, I'm sorry about your wife, and the things you're both probably dealing with. When it happens to you, it stays with you for the rest of your life and can be hard to get over. It certainly was for me.