When you think of the word family what comes to mind? Do your thoughts go to inside jokes, family vacations on the beach, or even teasing your little sibling? What about if I say the word clown? Does the fond memory of your sixth birthday party pop into mind or maybe being chased down by scary clown at the last haunted house you visited? Well, what about the word rape? I believe in today’s culture we misuse this word and wrongly give it a positive connotation at times. For example, after doing well on a test I’ve heard people use the expression, “I raped that test!” In this instance the word rape is being used to glorify your actions rather than being used to describe a disturbing and morally wrong act. In my opinion editorial I will be answering, ‘What should we do?’ when referring to the misuse of this word.

                In order to argue my claim that the use of the term rape is being abused and used lightly I plan to bring many statistics and examples to the table to open the readers’ eyes a bit. Rape is not a light issue and by throwing the word around to describe a ‘positive’ action such as succeeding academically we are, to a certain point, saying it is okay with causality.