What is cultural rape? (pagan)

[Isabella Lecour]

What is cultural rape?

I'd like to know what do you think when you hear the term "cultural rape"? I'm not talking about rape culture, which seams to come up alot when I google the term. Perhaps a few examples would help out if you are having a hard time finding and settling on a definition of the term.

Even the Urban Dictionary doesn't have a definition for it.

[Gentoo]

Cultural rape is a phrase I most often hear pagan Recons use to describe most eclectics. As an eclectic myself, I don't appreciate it when I hear it.

[Isabella Lecour]

Yea, it is that, Gentoo. That's why I brought it up. As an eclectic too, I'm tired of defending against this particular phrase. So I want to know what others think when they here it. I think the phrase is ambiguous enough to mean almost anything.

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by Isabella Lecour

What is cultural rape?

I'd like to know what do you think when you hear the term "cultural rape"? I'm not talking about rape culture, which seams to come up alot when I google the term. Perhaps a few examples would help out if you are having a hard time finding and settling on a definition of the term.

Even the Urban Dictionary doesn't have a definition for it.

I think of it as taking an established hunk of culture and perverting, exploiting, degrading, and dehumanizing it until it's pretty much unrecognizable as the thing it once was.

Kind of like the fashion industry.