Mike Domitrz argues that calling sexual violence by its real name, rape or sexual assault, instead of softer terms like taking advantage of, forces people to recognize what happened and intervene. Euphemisms let bystanders look away.
I think words like rape or sexual assault are stronger words than taking advantage of. So I'm going to be fair to you and say you are correct. That's why most of you use taking advantage, because then you don't have to do anything. If you actually used what it was, the word it was, if you called it a sexual assault, you called it a rape, every one of you in this room would stop that scene from happening. Every single time. Because you couldn't deny your responsibility to do something. Let's see, when we call it taking advantage of, everybody just turns and looks the other way.
