When somebody experiencing a severe problem gives it a name and speaks out about it, if that name catches on, it will ALWAYS be diluted in popular use by people who experience less severe analogues of the problem.
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"Rape culture" originally referred to prisons where rape was rampant. "Emotional labor" originally referred to the exhausting performance of happiness required of service workers. "Trigger" originally referred to stimuli that prompt PTSD flashbacks.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture#Origins_and_usage … explicitly contradicts your first claim here. Who's wrong?
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Replying to @XplodingCabbage
I haven't seen the film but apparently it does prominently feature prisons as examples of a rape culture.
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