to think this paint should not have to have its name changed

[Ohbehave1]

Just seen this. I know it's the Daily Fail but I thought this was worth a look.

Of course rape is a terrible thing to happen to anyone but a colour named after a plant is so obviously not meant to have any relevance to the act.

I grew up seeing field after field of yellow so perhaps I am not seeing this in the same way as some, but the English language is full of double meaning words.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509124/Aldi-forced-change-paint-labelled-rape-yellow-complaints-sex-assault-victim.html

Maybe there's a reason why there is no 'rape yellow' yet.

I know oilseed rape exists, and that paint is the same colour as the flower - but I cannot imagine why anyone would think that was a good name for a paint colour. Did no-one point out the negative connotations of the word?

If I was being cynical I'd say they did it on purpose. After all, it's publicity and people are talking about it...

It seems a rather odd choice of name

Yes, it's the name of a flower. But to many people it will also be one of the worst things that has ever happened to them.

I really can't see anyone being upset or traumatised by it not being called rape yellow, so why risk upsetting rape victims for the sake of a paint name?!

I can't believe they would have done it on purpose. That's too far fetched. I'm sure it's easy to change the name so I'm sure they will

It's just an excuse for the professionally unoffended to have an outing. They haven't had a day out since before Christmas...........

YABU.

What were they thinking?

Actually I think for anyone that has been raped seeing this whilst shopping isn't very nice at all.

Lots of other words that they could have used.

There are triggers everywhere. Not going to be able to avoid them all. Awful what happened to her but unreasonable.
Are we going to change every single thing that may possibly offend somebody? We may be here a while.

Poor choice of name. Is this a new range of paint so they're maximising publicity or something?

I haven't been raped.

I think it ought to be changed. If only because I'd rather not have my toddler (if I had one) sounding out the name and asking me what the word meant in the checkout queue.

I can't imagine why anyone (except, as I said, the Professionally Unoffended) would want it to stay.

Professionally Unoffended

A new way to stop a discussion.

FWIW, I know this colour as rapeseed yellow. and I think that they should change it back to that.

They are are German company

German word for rape the plant - rape
German word for rape the act - vergewaltigen

So be offended if they called it vergewaltigen paint.

YANBU. I too grew up seeing field after field of yellow.

When I'm World Dictator I'm going to ban the word "offended"

People never are actually offended. They are angry or upset, or don't like something very much, or think something's insensitive or silly. Other people then tell them they are offended and are being unreasonable.

Why would you want it to stay though? I had no idea rape meant anything other than sexual assault so maybe I'm biased but I can't imagine this being a genuine mistake.

When we used to drive past all the fields my dad would say that they are 'rape fields' so I knew that's what the sea of yellow was-rapeseed.
Back then and now I know that the word rape has different meanings. A crop and sexual assault depending on context.

Actually,cd, the German word for the plant is Raps. 'Rape' doesn't work in German, as the final e wouldn't elongate the vowel.

I've never heard the plant / flower called just rape, it has always been rapeseed. I believe it is the same thing as canola (maybe a North American thing).

Off to google.

I have been raped, it would phase me and neither does driving past fields with signs near them saying "best rape this way" Tho granted I haven't seen one of those for a fair few years.

Wouldn't

I'd say it's a genuine error that hasn't been picked up in translation. Obviously it should be changed.

Bloody awful plant though (with many wonderful uses) it's so bright it hurts and gives me cracking hayfever.

Unless I'm prepared for it, and sometimes even if I am, the word is hugely triggering. I shouldn't, nor should any other survivor, be in the middle of my shop and have to deal with that in my face.

There is no good reason it has to be called this. If it was "rapeseed yellow" that would be different. But it's not.

YABU.

Oh, and of course they should change the name; or insist on Rapeseed Yellow. It's so easily rectified. Or, from a commercial pov, improved.

Turns out canola is a varietal of the rapeseed plant, developed in Canada.

Canola yellow sounds ok but it would probably mean that a lot of people in this country wouldn't know what it was supposed to look like

How about emoji yellow? Bet that doesn't exist yet...