Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140606234443/@comment-4839682-20140613221045

Apparently we need a definition:

Rape: 1. the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. 2. Any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. 3.statutory rape. 4. An act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside. 5. Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.

Hook has done none of these things.

I am patently uncomfortable with comparing a man pursuing a woman romantically to rape. The term "rape culture" is being horribly misused here, if I'm not mistaken. (Iirc, it's about cultures tolerating and normalizing rape, not men trying to win women over)