Minimise Quotes

“When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am in denial, I have the tendency to minimize my abuse, believe the lies others have said, as well as deny it ever happened. It is important for me to remember as much detail as I can so I can trust my own perceptions of what really happened and not depend on the validations from others.”
― Patty Hite

“In 2011, actor Johnny Depp told the November issue of Vanity Fair that he felt participating in a photoshoot was akin to rape.

"Well, you just feel like you're being raped somehow. Raped . . . It feels like a kind of weird - just weird, man. But whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it's like - you just feel dumb. It's just so stupid," he said.

Likening instances of being flustered or uneasy to the often life-shattering experience of rape has become a far too common comparison in modern lexicon.

The phrase "Facebook rape" is perhaps the most widely used, which implies one person has posted on another person's Facebook account - usually something intended to embarrass the person.

But the casual, flippant use of the term "rape" in instances that do not involve sexual violence is highly problematic in that it trivialises one of the most despicable invasions of a human being.

Desensitising the masses to the term "rape" is just another way the conversation surrounding sexual assault is derailed or diluted in society.

Rape is, and should be considered universally, as a serious societal sickness that occurs within the "toxic silence" that surrounds sexual assault as Tara Moss put so elegantly in her recent Q&A appearance.

Further to that, the use of the term can be a trigger for rape survivors in that it may jolt terrifying memories of their own experience.

According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies, up to 57 per cent of rape survivors suffer post-traumatic stress disorder in their lifetime, with "triggers" including inflammatory words like rape causing deeply traumatic recollections.
Beware desensitising the term "rape", Newcastle Herald, June 6, 2014”
― Emma Elsworth

“Saying a man had sex with a child is like saying a man had dinner with the pork chop.”
― Linda McCarriston

“Everyone talks about stopping environment pollution! As long as humans exist on earth, it is not possible to ‘stop’ pollution entirely, but it can be ‘minimised’!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“সবাই শুধু পরিবেশ দূষণ বন্ধ করার কথা বলে! যতোদিন পৃথিবীতে মানুষ আছে, ততোদিন দূষণ একেবারে ‘বন্ধ’ করা সম্ভব নয়, তবে ‘কমানো’ সম্ভব!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Our mind is working all the time with two goals in sight: first is to minimise the pain and the second is to maximise the happiness. In its attempt to achieve its twin objectives, it is always moving back and forth in the three dimensions of time so that it can heal the pain and bring happiness to the present.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness