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Edited by Progo:
2/5/2014 9:36:41 PM
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Why is the alternate word for "molestation" banned...
...When molestation is the one almost exclusively used to describe sexual violence?
Neither word bothers me, and the filtering of them is a minor annoyance I can live with, but the inconsistency seems odd.
The M word
[quote]
1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy.
2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity.[/quote]
The R word
[quote]
1. The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
2. The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
3. Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a -blam!- of justice.[/quote]
See that, it has two non-sex definitions vs molestation only having one non-sexual use.
So why is molestation not banned as well?
[spoiler]And can we ban the word "van" while we are at it? :P[/spoiler]
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2 Replies
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1 ReplyMolestation doesn't need to be censored because most of the people here are too stupid to spell it correctly.
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1 ReplyEdited by whatisthisthing: 2/6/2014 1:25:38 PMOnly the present tense is censored I believe: -blam!-s, -blam!-, -blam!-, rapist -blam!- Edit: Nvm then all but rapist are censored.
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Edited by duck: 2/6/2014 9:46:02 AMI think Bungie just hates vegetable oil. I would just use the term rapeseed to avoid any confusion. Really the whole filter should be done away with.
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2 RepliesAs my highschool English teacher always taught me. Context is important. One word is more powerful in its context than the other.
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2 RepliesEdited by SBTTLS: 2/6/2014 3:39:52 AMProbably because it's used so often here, it loses meaning. You can't let a word like that lose meaning.
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2 RepliesBecause the ninjas are immature children...
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4 RepliesUsing the word casually makes people think of it as a casual thing. You may not, but you're not everyone. While I personally think that's a poor way to get a point across, it's the only one that seems to do anything since so many people don't realise how many people have been hurt by it. Molestation tends to be more of a legal term as well. While I do think it's a bit much that the other word is being filtered, I completely understand. I would never use the word itself without directly talking about it. It's not a bloody adjective for crying out loud. It's an offence and should be treated as such. It's one of the few crimes that does so much irrevocable damage and has the gall to let the victim try and "live" after it. It's not just a physical crime, it does intense psychological damage as well, which everyone who hasn't experienced (including myself) can't fully understand. If people started saying stupid things like "The football team got molested last game. They did terribly." I'm sure that molested would also get filtered. Just remember, here isn Canada roughly 1:17 females are sexually harmed in that way, even more so with sexual assaults in general. In America, that number goes up to 1:6 for females. Many males have a stigma of admitting, let alone reporting being assaulted in this way. Many in general go unreported do to general stigma for both sexes.
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Because history has shown that most people can't conduct themselves properly in cases involving one of those words.
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1 ReplyThere's a typo in the title, OP (Sorry to be obnoxious, but misspelled words annoy me a lot). To answer your question, I agree with you. They basically mean the same thing, so why not?
