Yes. Especially in online gaming. People often will often say "you got raped" or I "raped you" after they've won a game. I personally don't say it because I think it's just plain stupid, there are thousands of words in the English language many of which would be better to use.

Very much so. Even in an appropriate place it is. And maybe it's just that people have gotten numb to the real thing that it just doesn't seem to be such a 'big deal' anymore. You can just 'get over it' because it happens all the time.

Yes.It has become an excuse for many. A girl gets drunk, goes to a hotel room with a stranger, they have sex, next day she feels ashamed and BAM... he raped me. Some think that if they call it rape somehow it alleviates their responsibility for their own actions, much the same way a lush calls himself diseased by alcoholism. The worst part is that it takes away the severity for those who have truly been raped

Only a dummy would become numb to the severity of what rape really is. Rape is a viscious, violent, and cowardly act under any circumstance, and I don't believe that the word is being used inappropriately at all (except for a couple of bitches who thought thay might cash in by claiming they had been raped).

Dictionaries provide more than one meaning for that word. 1. forcing of somebody into sex: the crime of using force somebody to have sexual intercourse with somebody 2. instance of rape: an instance of the crime of rape 3. violent destructive treatment: the violent, destructive, or abusive treatment of something the rape of a beautiful stretch of countryside 4. abduction: an act of seizing somebody and carrying him or her away by force ( archaic ) http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861727169 To utterly defeat another person in any form of competitive activies. To total annihilate in an activity. see own, ownage, and pwn. To bother one. To absolutely destroy or take advantage of. Originally, the word rape was akin to rapine, rapture, raptor, and rapacious, and referred to the more general violations, such as looting, destruction, and capture of citizens that are inflicted upon a town or country during war, eg. the Rape of Nanking. Today, some dictionaries still define rape to include any serious and destructive assault against a person or community. English rape was in use since the 14th century in the general sense of "seize prey, take by force," from raper, an Old French legal term for "to seize", in turn from Latin rapere "seize, carry off by force, abduct". The Latin term was also used for sexual violation, but only very rarely. The legendary event known as the "Rape of the Sabine Women", while ultimately motivated sexually, did not entail sexual violation of the Sabine women on the spot, who were rather abducted, and then implored by the Romans to marry them (as opposed to striking a deal with their fathers or brothers first, as would have been required by law). Though the sexual connotation is today dominant, the word "rape" can be used in non-sexual context in literary English. In "the rape of the Silmarils" in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion", the word "rape" is used with its old meaning of "seizing and taking away". In Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, the word "rape" is used hyperbolically, exaggerating a trivial violation against a person. Compare also the adjective rapacious which retains the generic meaning. Sometimes, the word rape is used colloquially to dysphemistically describe forms of non-sexual unwelcome conduct, or metaphorically referring to environmental destruction, possibly implying a female gender of the Earth (Gaia). Other than in literary usage discussed above, this use of the term is unrelated to the original sense of "abduction" or "carrying off" and implies a comparison with sexual violation. In "The Rape of Nanking" actual mass rape and mass murder is summarized by naming the city as the object of the rape. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rape

i dont heare it much none of my friends will say it around me becuase they knoe ill flip

Casually? thats not a casual word by any means.

Yes, I immediately dismiss them as boorish and unworthy of knowing.

I don't hate period.

Yeah, rape is to common an occurrence for that word to be dropped so easily.

Other than Rape seed, a crop that is used for oil , I have never heard of that word used casually. Explain?

No doubt about it. I despise how people rape this word!

"Rape" is a Crime in a Non-Consentual situation- In a previously discussed Bondage Entertainement situation ALL of the parties involved know what will happen and know the situation "SAFE Word"! And the word "Rape" is not said because it is Not apropriate.

I've hardly ever met a woman that hasn't been raped, or claimed she was raped. So either statistics are way off or a lot of people use the word a little too broadly. I don't hate it, I'm not one to question whether someone was really raped or not, but I can't say I haven't met a female or two that drank a little too much, did someone or something they regretted doing and then called it something it was not. But then that's not the only kind of rape...there's rape like how the government rapes it's people, how humans rape nature, rape does have more than a sexual meaning.

"Rape" should not be obligated to be associated to any specified formality nor an casual expression.

Can't stand people who joke about it or take it so lighty rape is as bad a murder , They might not kill the body but the mental damage thats done is just as bad rape deserves the death penalty as a punishment

I don't...It's no worse than sodomize, Fuck, bitch, and a slew of other words that people use on a daily bases...Would it be more appropriate if when I sat down with a friend and said...Guess what, my girlfriend was forced to have sex today by this guy and she did not want too? Never put a spin on the ugly, ugly is what gets people to stand up and take notice...

I do.It's not a great word to chant everytime.It depicts brutality and violence.It's usage should be minimal and should be restricted to private or judicial conversations.

So we evolve from monkeys--create a language that if used inappropriately you would hate somebody for--christ are you sick and twisted---i hate people that beat their kids for using language however inappropriate--barbarism begins at home.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency in society to try to make something sound worse than it is by associating it with a known evil thing. Examples include the use of "piracy" to describe people who make illegal copies of music or movies, the recent use of "terrorist" to describe just about every kind of criminal activity, and the use of rape to describe sexual activities which, to me, are not rape - such as when someone has sex but regrets it later.

Yes, I do. Rape has a specific meaning in law, and another less specific, but still it does mean forcing sexual relations on an unwilling person. When we use it differently, like when we mean exciting, or even agressive (but consensual) sex we are demeaning the word and the act of rape itself. - Use words properly. All words.

Yes, I really hate hearing people saying stuff like, "man, I raped [insert name of video game]" or "he totally raped my ass in Call of Duty" or something, referring to just winning. It makes me want to throw something at them.

To use a word in a casual context or to place emphasis on a work that can't stand on it's own cheapens the word, and their work.