i remember my friends and i would say “he repented her” instead of sexual assault/rape because it was “lighter”, and because some places like school may have banned the word.
No, in short.
Absolutely not. I use the proper word for the situation. If someone raped someone, I’m going to use the word rape, not sugar coat to soften the blow and lessen the severity of the action. If the audience I’m talking to doesn’t know what the word rape means, then we probably aren’t having the conversation to begin with.
that’s fair. we did it as young teens because we couldn’t say “rape” but i get that it’s disrespectful
No, it’s disrespectful
fair enough
The old ban the word and you don’t have to worry about the thing that the word describes
I use legal/bureaucratic slang when I write some legal bureaucratic shit. I use kids slang when I talk to kids. I use Reddit slang when I post here. Should I continue or you get the idea?
To further this person’s point, the term for that is “code switching”
ohhh i get itttt
