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  • adjective Alternative spelling of rapable.

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Examples

  • Native American and First Nations women, too, are considered somehow especially or inherently "rapeable".

    UBUNTU! Sasha McLean 2008

  • The white women who go on to date or marry those young, privileged white men will likely rue the day they thought that somehow their men would hurt "that other sort" of woman and not them - the reality is that all of us are considered "rapeable", and there is no "other sort" of woman.

    UBUNTU! Sasha McLean 2008

  • The real concern is that women should be kept rapeable.

    Archive 2007-06-01 delagar 2007

  • The real concern is that women should be kept rapeable.

    Not Depressed? delagar 2007

  • "To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] AdamBurns 2009

  • When I began to think about and really process this, I had to acknowledge to myself that the survivor of the Duke Lacrosse rape was raped because she was a sex worker, which makes her just like me … Rape is seen as acceptable because she was a sex worker - according to that logic she and [I] are alike and both "un-rapeable."

    UBUNTU! Sasha McLean 2008

  • The statement just doesn’t make any sense except as a subtle way to imply that a victim “liked it rough” and was thus deviant and less “rapeable”.

    The Duke Rape Case, TalkLeft, and FrontPageMag 2006

  • That’s because you don’t have to live with lifelong reminders that you are the rapeable one, no matter who you are, what you do, or how truthfully you live your own life.

    Duke Rape Case: Regarding “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” 2006

  • The whole philosophy I’m getting from the anti-choicers is basically, “You were stupid enough to be born with a uterus and a vagina, and therefore stupid enough to have the type of body our society most deems rapeable, so just DEAL.”

    Republican Governor Vetoes Rape Victims Rights Bill 2005

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