found this thought elsewhere and thought it a good thing to post it here. link to the aggregate site, another favorite, i found it on below;

Let me bring up another perfectly good and evocative word now heading for the freak show booth, "survivor." If you sailed on the Titanic, or the Lusitania, or the Hood, or the Yamato, or the Indianapolis, or the Andrea Doria, and made it home, you are a survivor. If you made it through the horrors of the holocaust, you are a survivor. If you were brutally attacked, beaten, and raped, and lived to tell, you are a survivor.
If you had your bottom pinched, or underwent some catcalls, or got groped on a date, or had to put up with a "hostile work environment," "survivor" is not the label for you.
"Sexual assault" has been steadily redefined and watered down so it can be a boorish comment, a leer, or a gesture. To claim that as a "sexual assault" insults those who have suffered and survived real sexual assault.

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