What do feminists mean when they say we live in a ‘rape culture’? For one thing, a culture where rape and intense happiness can be referred to by a single word.
So let’s go to wordnet and look up ‘ravishment’. It has two definitions:
“a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment”
and
“the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will”
Look ‘ravish’ up somewhere else, say, wiktionary. Here again we find:
“to seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force”
“to transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy”
“to rape”
So when the Martian documentary-maker arrives tomorrow, how am I supposed to explain this?
Directionless Bones 