Depending on the recipient's emotional state, being called "fat" or "dorky" can be worse. There's simply no valid objective way to decide the equivalency or lack thereof.
Or, more likely, believe that any circumstance where being called fat or dorky is a serious threat to your well being will also be a circumstance where people musing about your rape and death will be a serious threat to your well being.
Especially as, for women, body shaming and rape threats often come hand in hand.
No, I didn't introduce an insult/threat having a relationship. Insulting someone who is in the wrong frame of mind is still not a threat.
I understand that we are simply going to disagree on this, so I won't bother rebutting anything else, but I'd appreciate you not adding context to my own thoughts.
I'm sorry, what do threats have to do with insults? Conflating the two is a classic technique in this strange attempt to create some sort of right to never be offended, but they have no relationship to each other at all.
"I'm sorry, what do threats have to do with insults? Conflating the two is a classic technique in this strange attempt to create some sort of right to never be offended, but they have no relationship to each other at all."
They do have a relationship - indeed, there's two of them embedded in this conversation, one of which you introduced:
1. Insults as a form of threat to one's health, in the form of pushing someone toward suicide. As noted, this relationship between an insult and a threat was of your own creation.
2. Rape threats are insults. They are suggestions that a woman (or man) is a lesser being. A thing. Something to be commented on, their violation a subject of idle speculation. Their autonomy denied because of who they are. All those are insults, as well as threats.
