I know that getting offended by somebody saying something on the internet is petty and useless in itself, but having a friend that has been raped really changes your perspective on it. I don't care when its used in the sense of "destroyed" or "beat up", but when somebody actually uses it in the sense of forced sex as a joke, that's when I have to restrain myself from retaliating.
No it doesn't. My closest friend got raped, and while it did bother me for a little while, I quickly realized that the word isn't any more damaging than it had been prior. The only difference was the fact that I had become angry about it.
So, I stopped being angry about it. Because you can't stop people from saying words.