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[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Is it really rape if they can't say no?

I think that it can be. After all, just "not saying no" does not mean complicity. However, it's still not rape, because the inanimate cannot be opposed to anything.

[Irishmile]

Is it a shoe thing? I bet its a shoe thing.

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

I think that it can be. After all, just "not saying no" does not mean complicity. However, it's still not rape, because the inanimate cannot be opposed to anything.

Its a question of consent really.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Irishmile

Its a question of consent really.

Ah, but then is it rape because consent can't be given? Or is it not, because consent can't be denied?

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Ah, but then is it rape because consent can't be given? Or is it not, because consent can't be denied?

This actually raises a pretty interesting point, actually. It's almost universally considered rape when a minor a person in a compromised mental state is slept with, because these people are not capable of providing consent or capable of entering into contracts. This makes the question of closet rape a bit trickier!

[Irishmile]

[GuruGuru214]

Here's another question for you: is it rape if the closet has no orifices to rape? Or does the closet have orifices, in which case, what the hell man?

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

Here's another question for you: is it rape if the closet has no orifices to rape?

No, it wouldn't be.

Or does the closet have orifices[?]

...however, yes it does.

in which case, what the hell man?

The secret is in the frosting.

But I'll never tell.

[Irishmile]

you also have been
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[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

...however, yes it does.

Is this like those walls in Silent Hill or something?

[Avistew]

Rape is about lack of consent, and someone who can't speak (because paralysed, nonverbal or whatever) can definitely get raped. However rape is about violence, both sexual and mental (it's an act of control most of all) so something that doesn't have any feelings, be them emotional or physical, can't be raped.
So I'm afraid closets aren't considered rapable by law. If your closets are offended by that I suggest they start fighting for this right.

Originally Posted by Roivas

I've only gone golfing once but I heard the key to a good game was looking goofy.

So tell us, what is it like, getting a negative score in golf?

[Will]

Originally Posted by avistew

So tell us, what is it like, getting a negative score in golf?

*cough* actually, getting a negative score is kind of the whole point.

<-- just spent a week on a golf course

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by Will

*cough* actually, getting a negative score is kind of the whole point.

<-- just spent a week on a golf course

Did you miss the time where he said looking goofy improved his score?

Although to be fair I didn't mean negative as compared to the par, but negative period. Because he's so goofy that his score is not even 18 (which, honestly, good luck to get a hole in one on each hole lol) but even LESS than that.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by avistew

Did you miss the time where he said looking goofy improved his score?

Although to be fair I didn't mean negative as compared to the par, but negative period. Because he's so goofy that his score is not even 18 (which, honestly, good luck to get a hole in one on each hole lol) but even LESS than that.

But that would be BETTER THAN PERFECT.

[Avistew]

Yes. I'm saying if the goofier you look, the better your score, he must be better than perfect.

[Rather Dashing]

Oh.

...

Huh.

...

OH!

I get it.

[Avistew]

Here, tag added for posterity.

[Little Writer]

Why does our golfer friend photo look to me like it's a missing scene from that old Disney movie "Honey I shrunk the kids"?

[Fealiks]

Originally Posted by avistew

Rape is about lack of consent, and someone who can't speak (because paralysed, nonverbal or whatever) can definitely get raped. However rape is about violence, both sexual and mental (it's an act of control most of all) so something that doesn't have any feelings, be them emotional or physical, can't be raped.
So I'm afraid closets aren't considered rapable by law. If your closets are offended by that I suggest they start fighting for this right.

Well, most definitions do not consider violence an integral part of rape, although one or two do suggest that rape is "usually" accomplished through violence.

Here are some definitions from Wiktionary:

Verb

To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.

To abuse an object in an extreme manner.
The loggers raped the virgin forest

(slang) To dominate in a contest.
My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.


As you can see, the closets are inrapable according to the first definition because they are not human. The third definition may apply in some abstract cases, but it is not likely. The second definition, however, is more interesting.

In order to first operationalize "abuse," we must find the purpose of a closet. It is generally accepted that closets are intended for storing items, so to do anything other than that would be abuse. However, abuse of the object on its own does not qualify as rape just yet.

The object in question must be abused in an "extreme" manner if it is to claim that it has been raped. First, let us define "extreme". Wiktionary gives us: "The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition; Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale." From this, we can assume that in order to abuse a closet in an "extreme manner," one must render the closet entirely incapable of ever storing items again.

If my client were to break the closet in the course of his sexual liaison, therefore, (which he did) then he would have raped the closet. Or would he? Let's back up a little bit here. I have an audio-tape of my client recorded before the supposed rape stating that he wished to, and I quote, "temporarily store my penis in that closet." In light of this, it can be plainly seen that my client was not, in fact, "abusing" the closet. He was fulfilling the closets purpose. This means that although the end outcome (i.e., the closet being incapable to be used properly ever again) is the same as it would have been were the closet to be raped, the act which produced this outcome was not, in fact, rape.

The defence rests.

[GuruGuru214]

So much for user pics. Here's another one of me. I'm the one in the back.



...what?

[Roivas]

I guess this is one of the other cool pics of me.