No, the Institution Didn’t Rape You

Megan Benoit Ratcliff
2 min readJun 19, 2021

I am sensitive to the plight of women who experience injustice, mistreatment, and inequity because of their gender. But I am done with women using the word “rape” flippantly in response to events other than sexual assault.

Rape is rape.

Unless you have experienced the all-encompassing total body and soul violation of someone else forcefully and without consent sexually…

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Megan Benoit Ratcliff

Pediatric psychologist, writer of random things, squirrel watcher. Every day affords us an opportunity to be the best—or worst—versions of who we want to be.