[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

She got herself trapped in the fact that the word rape covers such a huge range of circumstances and that by pointing out degrees of badness you are not condoning any of them

whilst I get what you're saying it seems to only ever apply to rape that it "not being that bad" is pointed out. Like if someone was murdered by being shot in the head, you're not going to hear someone say well it could have been worse, he could have been tortured first