Victim Blaming?

[Excited Penguin]

That's silly. You don't owe anyone an apology. If someone means something they should state it in an at least somewhat comprehensible way. The op, to me, was fine. Ark said things like "she may as well blame the sun for burning her skin". There's no amount of twisting that can make a statement like that acceptable in reference to a rape victim.

Yeesh; I must have missed picking that colorful analogy out of Ark's typical textwall ramble-style posting, lol.



Or wait...is that a metaphor?  Which one uses "like or as"??  EP, I NEED YOU!

That's an analogy. 

A metaphor is being used when a word or phrase is cleverly employed to describe something semantically disconnected from it by drawing attention to those of its characteristics that make it relevant to the thing being described.  . The sky within your eyes is boundless and haunting would be an example.

The metaphor contains an implicit comparison between two things - it hides the "right" one and it transposes the sham over it. An analogy does the comparison explicitly, by pointing out both things being compared for the purpose of better clarifying the properties of one. Where metaphors are aesthetic and subtle, analogies are plain and informative.