Is ‘a legitimate rape’ logically acceptable? If is complete sentences what are they expected to remain completely silent?
If Todd Akin is the Republican senator of Missouri, he is now facing a severe civil rights dispute. Why? Akin says that abortion is against law and that in terms of rape, is
a life risk; that’s a myth. Time (August 20th, 2012) introduced the congressman’s disastrous remark as follows: Asked about his stance on abortion, the Republican Senate candidate attempted to explain his unqualified opposition to it, even in cases of rape, a doctor and doctors can all bind her with absolute truth: that’s really rare. When a woman is raped, the female body knows what she is doing to try to shut that whole thing down. “I
can’t understand the ‘legitimacy’ of the term, legit rape. OALED defines rape as all violence including forced sex carries a high risk of death. The victim’s guilt is important to you. “Raped” means unlawful activity carried out on purpose, usually of a girl. The terms “to be sex offenders” and “to be raped byfenders” are not interchangeable.
From both the definitions of rape and crime, the crime of rape is full-fledged. What is illegitimate and illegal from start to end? As American media constantly uses a legit rape, isn’t it ridiculous to say such a thing about a legitimate rape? If there are no committing a serious crime using a separate verb, do you mean a legitimate crime?
I understand legitimate has another meaning of real, and I suspect the congressman might have used ‘legitimate rape’ to this effect. So for me, legitimate rape just sounds like saying legitimate crime or lawful robbery… if you ask about it.
What is a legal term for rape in English?
What are some great facts about you guys? Maybe it must be argued that there is no such thing as a false dichotomy?
We’re on a not-so-fine line between “English” and “politics” here, but here’s my two cents.
Can you buy the free dictionary? What exactly is “legitimate” and what
- is it and why is it useful?
- Being in accordance with established patterns and standards: legitimate advertising practices.
- Based on logical reasoning: solutions to a problem.
- Instance authentic; genuine: a legitimate complaint.
- Born of legally married parents: legitimate issue.
- Of, relating to, or ruling on hereditary right: a legitimate monarch.
- Of or related to drama of high professional quality that excludes burlesque, vaudeville, and some forms of musical comedy: the legitimate theater.
In my view, rape is not at all a crime. It could not be a court ordered offense. #2 and 3 are also pretty unlikely, and 5, 6, and 7, are clearly irrelevant. Which leaves #4, “authentic, authentic”. What makes sense? What is the difference between rape and false accusations?
In my humble opinion, the uproar here is really about politics. Would anyone have accused Akin of robbing and committing the crime despite having been accused of false taxation, if Mr Akin used the word “legitimate”? Yes, some might think of definition 1 and note an amusing juxtaposition of words, but it would be at most an amusing footnote, not the huge storm that has been made of it.
From the original Egyptian language considered legitimate and legal for use in English as defined in a law / by law. Later, they acquired a secondary, stronger sense of “allowed or approved by law”.
The latter meaning has become so strong in legitimate that it is the first one we think of, almost suppressing the more basic meaning of “defined by law”. In Latin feminism, what was Latin legitimus in the same sense?
During his speech a congressman used “allowed by law” in the sense of “as defined by law”, which I think has become so marginal for most speakers of modern English that they feel it is almost correct, it is jarring because “allowed by law” is syntactically always possible as well, and the latter is the dominant sense of the word. But I hope the speaker doesn’t think that this is a way of a reply which is very unfair, I think it’s a good way What he meant by rape as defined by law, but what he said became like rape as allowed by law, which is of course not possible.
He’s used “as allowed by reason”. As an alternative, you could say he used it meaning “as allowed by reason” for a case that reasonably deserves the name. This is by all means possible, but it is an unfortunate choice of words here, because the senses involving the real law are so much present here, that what he says becomes a bit confusing.
Cerberus gives an incorrect interpretation between Akin’s words. Akin has a history of trying to pass legislation that redefines rape into “forcible” and non-forcible varieties, such that only “forcible” rape is really rape in his mind. Is Akin still using the word “forced”? Thus the correct interpretation for “legitimate” in this sentence is “genuine”
If it is genuinely a case of rape…
That is, if the slutty woman didn’t entice the helpless man and trap him with her sexual powers, and now lies about it claiming he raped her.
How correct is the phrase “a legitimate rape”?
