To detest the word "Frape"

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I'm see8ng and hearing a lot of people talking about "Fraping" or having been "Fraped" on FB. It sends a chill right down my spine every time I hear people say it. I find it far too flippant a play on words considering we know what the word really means.

I now it's one of those made-up words that people are using to sound cool but I put it in the same catagory as those currently running around calling their kids "sexy"

Surely these terms are a touch inappropriate?

This thread has been done not long ago.

What about how flippantly we use the word 'kill'? Kill the thread, killing time, ooh I could kill for a glass of wine...etc.

Does that mean that we don't take murder seriously? I don't think it does. Similarly, I think most of us should be able to use 'rape' in different contexts and be able to distinguish between them without too much fuss.

Yanbu I hate it too. Yuk.

language is constantly flowing, changing, adapting. Words develop new meanings, move away from traditional ones. Rude words become more acceptable, then commonplace, then rude again... I actually think 'frape' is a good description and adaptation of two words to describe a new situation. It will become dated, when facebook is old news and some other social network is the big deal.

How about Facejacked? Maybe that is too weird

YANBU to dislike Frape, I don't like it either.

Do you have a problem with 'grape' as well.

Yes. Grape devalues the word 'grope'.

OK, I have had the misfortune of being raped and I would say YABU

It is just a word. A neologism. Believe me, there are far, FAR worse things to get upset about.

Facejacked conjours up images of someone wanking over my face.Sorry TMI

ThePopsicleKat The difference is that people who have been murder victims are not around to take offence. People who have been raped are.

If some survivors don't have a problem with it, that's good for them.

But knowing that some people find the word's flippant evocation of a physically, emotionally and mentally scaring experience upsetting at best and triggering at worst, I don't use it.

nellyjane People who've been violently mugged have to contend with people saying 'what a mug' and they're still around.

I take rape very seriously but I can tell the difference between frape and the most serious of sexual assaults.

Just as I can tell the difference between murder and 'I could murder a pint'

What about the loved ones of those who have been murdered? Do you think flippant use of 'kill' might bother them? We use words that describe grave events in more casual manners all the time. I'm not sure why 'rape' should be ring-fenced when others aren't.

I don't particularly use it myself, but quite a few of my friends do. It doesn't bother me; I don't think for one minute that any of them are condoning the act of rape, it's just gallows humour. As cumbria81 said, far bigger things to worry about than a new slang term which will soon go out of fashion anyway.

Its just a word

Language evolves

Agree. Not a deal.