I do treat Great Debates as more of an academic, university-esque environment. I do not see it as casual conversation. Perhaps I am wrong to do so, but that is where I was coming from.
The reason I titled the topic that way was because I didn’t want any confusion as to what it would be about. With a sensitive subject like this I don’t want someone who may be a survivor to be intrigued by a vague title and be surprised/triggered that it’s a debate about the morality of rape. I was thinking, it’s possible they might open the topic just as the last post is someone arguing that the woman’s consent doesn’t matter because X, and then maybe the survivor gets that sick feeling that everything is wrong with the world.
I spent a good ten or fifteen minutes trying to find a concise title, to make sure anybody who sees the topic knows exactly what they are getting into when they open it. I was particularly surprised when codinghorror, who has in the past stressed how important it is to have a descriptive title, posted that he wished he could un-see my topic.
~Max