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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.151349.1993@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov13.234022.12765@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1e92clINN9ei@saffron.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.021510.5975@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:13:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.021510.5975@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >maufd@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J S Graley) writes:
- >>891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
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- >>>I'm in agreement with Axel, I see advertising (esp. the ones which depict
- >>>unreal women) as mind rape.
- >
- >>Mind Rape!?!?!?
- >>'Rape' is the unwanted and forceful penetration of a woman.
- >
- >[50 plus lines of discussion of the term "rape"]
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- >Perhaps you have forgotten that rape also means "despoil" or "pillage",
- >as in "raping the land" ???
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- >>Bloody annoying when strong words are used in innapropriate contexts isn't
- >>it? Now multiply your annoyance by the seriousness of Rape, and you will see
- >>what I mean.
- >
- >Boy, I sure hope we don't get into a discussion of rape seed oil...
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- I believe they are marketing it as 'canoli' oil, or somesuch. Who would
- buy a product with such strong negative associations in the name? Since
- neither the oil or the seed have anything to do with the act, I see no
- ethical problems with changing it.
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- >rini
- >- I don't really know what Trish meant by the word... my own reading was
- >closer to the useage in "raping the land."
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- How so? "Mind rape" would necessarily be a peosonal thing, while "raping
- the land would not be (although one could take it personally).
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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