Frape?
Tags: I kick started a discussion on my own personal FB page yesterday about the word “frape”.
For those who aren’t aware, frape is the slang term generally used for the scenario when someone uses another person’s facebook account while pretending to be that person eg if I left my laptop unattended and a friend of mine posted up a status about me like”Rebecca loves the penis” or similar then that would be referred to as a “frape”, ie facebook rape.
However, what I said to start the discussion, and what I’d like to see discussed here is this:
Rebecca is uncomfortable with the word frape – I just think the act of rape is joked about and trivialised enough with language that already exists without inventing a new word. What do people think?
Well – what do you think? Am I being oversensitive? Or is my discomfort justified in a society where we don’t take rape seriously even when we should?
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I would have to agree with you on the word.
Rape is a very strong word which immediately evokes an emotional response. It is a very serious thing and I don’t think this word should be trivialised. Posting as someone else is childish, the word frape is not.
Have to agree — <i>real</i> rape isn’t taken seriously enough, and these jokey metaphorical uses of the word contribute to that problem.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
I’m not going to get started on all the ways we trivialise rape in our society but that one takes the cake.
Frape?!
Oh my my people, I may get really really angry here.
People throw words arond like they don’t matter. But they do, they stick.
Just look at how we’re recaptured as many of the anti-lgbt words as we can like queer, dyke, tranny and so on. We do it because we know how imprtant words are.
I laugh when people say something is awesome or epic as they are, ironically, trivialising the extreme. Yes I’m a word geek.
But Frape? People no no no! We cannot trivialse rape!!!
OMFG
And I’ve just found this group which makes the whole thing even more disconcerting:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Frape-Crisis-Centre/400035909250
Frape? -oh please, what an utterly stupid term.
I’d say it is used by the same type of morons who say something is gay when they mean lame or stupid.
Also i shudder to contemplate the state of the english language in 20 years when every word will be shortened to the bare minimum – (all the better to fit in a tweet?!)
Utterly trivialising and deeply insulting to those of us that have actually experienced rape. Especially that group.
“The Frape Crisis Centre”, you have to be joking me Slayer, that link is disgusting on so many levels! It amazes me in an age that is supposed to be politically correct that there are still morons out there who can come up with these things
I agree with all of the above. What I found very difficult was when I overheard a group of sports fans saying that their team were going to “rape” the opposition. Apparently this is a very common term used by fans nowadays.
Delighted to see that there are thinking people who object to the term ‘frape’, it annoys me how flippantly it is used by my peers on a daily basis.