Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase 'gang rape' to describe such crimes because it is too 'emotive' a term. Under new guidance, they have been told to refer to sex attacks that involve more than one culprit as 'multi-perpetrator rapes' instead."Gang rape" is too emotive a term? Someone has been sequentially raped by a group of people and the term used to describe it is too emotive? What drugs are these people taking?
Almost six years ago Sir John Stevens, then the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, ignited a row by objecting to use of the term 'gang rape' in an article by The Daily Telegraph, choosing to refer to it as "group rape".Group rape seems so much less threatening than gang rape, doesn't it?
I don't really know why there is a need to diminish the horror that people feel about gang rape. Calling it 'multi-perpetrator rape' may be an all-encompassing term that accurately covers more attacks but it has less impact and also ruins one of sickipedia's most popular jokes.
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"Help help help! I've been graped"
"Don't you mean raped?"
"No. There was a bunch of them"
Did anyone else totally misread 'multi-perpetrator' and think 'Oh! That's a bit too blunt!'..?
No? Just me then.. *blush*
Henry Crun, you utter bastard, that was precisely what I was going to post.
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