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I understand your concerns, but the use of the word rape is at best rather loaded. One could make the argument that Google abused your data, but to invoke a metaphor to extreme sexual violence dilutes your own point as well as disrespects the very real victims of rape.

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The word "rape" has multiple meanings. At least one of which applies and is not necessarily connected with anything of a sexual nature. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rape

Yes, it does. The trouble is that the connotations of the word are still very highly sexualized, even when using an explicitly non-sexual definition.

The legal definition of rape hangs on the detail of lack of consent, not on how violent it was. It's kind of a myth that rape is "extreme sexual violence". In the majority of cases, it isn't all that physically violent, but it is still a violation of the person due to lack of consent. In that sense, "rape" makes a good metaphor for what Buzz did here.

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