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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6179688" data-attributes="member: 8835">There is this as well.Knowing that like 20% of the female population has been raped, I will never ever feature rape in my gaming campaigns.Gaming is usually kind of personal, and not knowing who has suffered or knows somebody, it's just got no use in my game.  I can think of other horrible non-sexual things to do to PCs and NPCs (like roasting and eating them).However, in other non-gaming circles, I may refer to corporate price-gouging as "wallet rape" (to which somebody on this forum objected to), or the relentless involuntary ear licking my dog gives as "ear rape".  Most people get that these things are not derogatory toward victims and have nothing to do with the real thing.  Folks who don't get that bug the stuffing out of me as they are lobbying to elevate their interpretation over mine, the speaker.If I give in to such objections, I am ceding power over my self expression.  As much as "the slippery slope" may be cited on other political topics, letting others decide that their inability to parse words per their context means they can restrict everyone's use of them is indeed a slippery slope.  At some point, we will be reduced to just "ug" until somebody argues that it refers to their sexual paraphenalia and that's offensive too.I think it will be simpler if we mulch everybody who got offended by the original PA comic.  And then mulched everybody who bought the Dickwolf shirt.And then mulched everybody who thought about the PA debacle.</blockquote>

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