I can very prominently feel it in my own chest when other people yawn around me, even if I try to fight it. As though I, myself, had yawned. Why is that?
Isn’t that the definition of rape, forcing someone else to feel things that they don’t want to feel?
Yawning is contagious. Ie everyone feels like they have to yawn when they see someone else yawn, it’s a normal phenomenon.
There’s different theories as to why this is but I think maybe it’s because of mirror neurons. These are neurons in your brain that light up like you’re actually doing a task you’re watching someone else doing. Others have said it shows empathy but apparently that’s been disproven so who knows.
Also I don’t know if I agree with that definition of rape. There’s a lot of times where we have to be stuck with feelings we don’t want, that’s just a part of being human.
I thought a yawn was just your brain needing more oxygen.
Rape is being forced to participate in something you hate.
Rape is someone trying to coerce you into sex. Coercing someone into something they hate is bad, but it isn’t rape. In the army we had things we hated forced on us all the time. If you’re at a suckee job you’re made to do things you hate. Saying someone has raped you just because he or she looks at you funny is not rape. It might be terrible manners, but it isn’t rape.
Yawn rape? not buying it
rape is not yawning
Rape tends to be sexual even though many times it is more an act of violence rather than strictly sexual. I don’t think yawning is sexual or violent.
You guys misunderstood, but I shouldn’t have used so strong of a word.
I should have
Rape is being forced to participate in something you hate…of a sexual nature, because, if you liked it, it would be called something entirely different.
Rape can be something other than the obvious, sexual penetration with an unwilling partner…there are other meanings.
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Saying someone has raped you just because he or she looks at you funny is not rape
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Don’t know about you, but I feel the law should protect the innocent, if a girl claims she was raped (or sexually abused in any way) and it turns out to be a malicious intent to harm the accused persons character, then she needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Why is someone allowed to accuse others and not be held accountable?
Maybe work on being less irritated by having to yawn. It’s very hard not to yawn. Sometimes even thinking about yawning will make you want to yawn.
So maybe desensitize yourself from being bothered by it. You will still yawn, but if it doesn’t upset you, it doesn’t have any power over you.
Lmao, no. The deffinition of rape is some where along the lines of : Felony 1, intercorse using forceful compulsion without someones concent, or gross sexual behavior with someone who cannot give concent. Definitely delusional af.
Hun, yawns are contagious lmao
I don’t know what the legalities of false accusations of rape are, but the great majority of rape accusations are true. I think I heard somewhere that two per cent of rape allegations are false. I do balk when someone cries rape when someone just rubs a person the wrong way. I don’t know how pervasive that is, but I have seen people make that claim on the internet. One time at the assisted living center where I live this one woman was crying rape because I talked about current events in a current events group. Maybe I was doing it the wrong way, and I did stop doing it because she was really upset, and my case manager wanted me to stop. Still, crying rape because someone is talking about current events in a current events group is applying the name of rape to actions that are in no way a sexual assault.
You are surely treading on thin ice when comparing anything to rape. It diminishes the awful crime of rape and sexual assault.
When I was a kid, we had a speaker at my school who had been in a death camp in the Holocaust. He explained what it was like to really be starving. To this day I try not to use the word starving when I mean “hungry” or “ravenous” sometimes I forget. But, words have meaning.
This thread is making me yawn though.
I am sorry you feel so violated that someone is ‘making’ you yawn against your will. Yawns are contagious and I do think it is a delusion. I appreciate that you ‘feel’ violated, though, and I am sorry about that.
The psychological trauma is on par with rape, because I can fully empathize with rape victims because of it. It isn’t your place to tell me how traumatic my experiences have been. Even though this particular instance was triggered by something stupid.
47, thank you for actually understanding. Violated is the perfect term.
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no, rape is when somebody breaks into your apartment while you are sleeping, drugs you, and ■■■■■ your paralyzed body
I’ve had sleep paralysis of this exact nature. Lasted about an hour. Felt explicitly real.
What you are describing is not a delusion. Yawns are just contagious. That’s natural. And no, it is not a rape. A rape is sexual.