Derogatory Terms

Sometimes it sickens me.

I hear left and right at my school-a high school- kids using the word “Rape” as a word for attack. It truly sickens me for many reasons.

You never know who it’s going to affect around you. You don’t know if the person you just said that in front of had been raped, or known someone who had been raped. It’s a touchy subject, I know, but people need to take things like this more seriously. And honestly, I don’t understand why more adults-even they use it sometimes- even teachers, don’t do anything about it. I hear it and it drives me absolutely bonkers, and whenever I try to step in, someone always ends up saying “Don’t take it so seriously, jeez.” And you know how that makes me feel? That makes me feel pissed off and not powerful. And men aren’t the only ones saying things like this, I’ve heard girls say it as well.

My point is, no matter what the situation, it’s not appropriate, nor kind, to use “rape” as a term for being attacked. Go grab a dictionary, look up the word “rape” and then look  up the word “attack” in a thesaurus. There you have it.