@light (This has come up before when I’ve used rape as a metaphor. eg interfluidity.com/v2/4013.html I don’t see it in the comments to that post, but on Twitter or elsewhere I’ve received pretty poignant objections to analogizing not-literally-rape to rape. I understand that and get why some people are really upset by that! But it’s not a metaphor from which I’ll promise always to abstain. The emotions it provokes are a double-edged sword, but charged metaphor is an important tool.) /fin