Appropriate and necessary use of the word rape: To describe what has happened to someone who has been forced or coerced into a sex act.
Inappropriate and unnecessary use of the word rape: To describe what has "been done to you" by the IRS and/or US Government by requiring you to pay taxes.
rape
1 /reɪp/ Show Spelled [reyp] Show IPA noun, verb, raped, rap·ing.
–noun
1.the unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.
(So, the forcible sodomy of a man in prison - of which there are about 200 times that of rape against women in any given year - isn't rape. Only women can be raped. Rape is whatever a woman says it is. Women NEVER lie. Remember, that was from our primer.)
2.any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
3.statutory rape.
4.an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.
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5.Archaic . the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
–verb (used with object)
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6.to force to have sexual intercourse.
7.to plunder (a place); despoil.
8.to seize, take, or carry off by force.
–verb (used without object)
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9.to commit rape.
And this is just dictionary.com. What if I used a GOOD dictionary?
Somebody's a dingaling. I like this new dinging; makes shredding a bit easier.
You may be onto something...there's another word that describes what the government does to us...it begins with "F" and rhymes with "duck."
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Ain't that the truth! If you saw the bill we just got you'd shitcherpants. I am.
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