If you really want to have a more productive conversation (if that is even possible on YouTube...) then you need to parse your terms a little more closely.
Using a term like "rape," even though absolutely correct, is a red light that will end a conversation with someone who thinks that coercion isn't rape. So use their term, but make it clear that using coercion to get sex is the epitome of awful. Raising consciousness, to use Dawkins' term, is about speaking the other person's language.
Using a term like "rape," even though absolutely correct, is a red light that will end a conversation with someone who thinks that coercion isn't rape. So use their term, but make it clear that using coercion to get sex is the epitome of awful. Raising consciousness, to use Dawkins' term, is about speaking the other person's language.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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