Yeah, the word is overused imo and ends up minimizing the true
   impact of rape, which is devastating. == the flipside of the
   coin I see in new atheist verbage: one of the many reasons I
   can't stand Dawkins: He calls religion child abuse. But that
   minimizes child abuse, which is NOT the same thing as taking
   your kid to Sunday school once a week. It also weakens their
   respective arguments imo. == Agreed 100%. I don't have a problem
   with people having an agenda and pursuing it if it means that
   much to them. Free speech and all that as long as you're not
   hurting anyone and whatever. But when they use excessive
   hyperbole like that, exaggerating EVERYTHING, it's akin to
   someone always comparing 'such and so' to Hitler or to Nazis.
   After a while, nobody wants to listen anymore except the people
   that already agree with them. They become an echo chamber. ==