Around a hundred women demonstrated in Brussels on Friday to denounce gender violence on the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November.
There’s the violence of “a wrong committed against a person’s body”, and there’s violence in the sense of “a direct application of physical force”.
I think everyone here is in agreement that the second sense should not be considered a prerequisite for the first.
Hot take: Rape is violence, no matter what.
I understand what you’re trying to say, but the counter argument is that rape could occur through coercion or deception.
There’s the violence of “a wrong committed against a person’s body”, and there’s violence in the sense of “a direct application of physical force”.
I think everyone here is in agreement that the second sense should not be considered a prerequisite for the first.