the whole They tortured Glen but only sexually molested Maggie thing is the Gov playing a psychological mindfuck. his opponents (and people here evidently) are spending a lot of brain power and time wondering why this, why not that, etc etc and the are missing or not focusing on the things that might tell them more. Its a misdirect
no. when you’ve sliced open and killed a pregnant mother to deliver her baby, the threat of a rape has got to pale in comparison. yet none of the characters, including Maggie, has reacted to that outside of that episode. the same is not true with the reaction to Maggie’s rape threat. the way they’re behaving is simple incongruous to what they’ve experienced since the zombie outbreak.
No, that’s simply not how trauma works. Trauma A doesn’t lose all its impact simply because Trauma B > Trauma A. And there’s no reason to believe that Maggie isn’t suffering from both. What is true is that killing people, even people you are close to, when they turn into zombies might be something they have gotten used to. Being sexually assaulted isn’t. And it isn’t true that Lori’s death has had no consequences.
The fact that the monsters in zombie movies generally aren’t called zombies in-story is a necessary part of the conceit. The Walking Dead & its ilk are set in universes in which Romero either never existed or never made his seminal movies, and there is no zombie movie tradition. Likewise, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight exist in a world without DC Comics (or at least Bob Kane), and so forth. How could it be otherwise?
I dunno, why not? There are Nero Wolfe books in the Nero Wolfe universe. 
Impudent worm. I have dispatched an Amanda Seyfried model slapbot to teach you the error of your ways.
Jokes aside, I hate winking at the audience. And my personal dislike for such winking aside, it’s necessary for non-joking zombie movies to exist in a world without a zombie-movie tradition so the characters don’t walk in to the apocalypse knowing what to do.
There are vampire films with vampire legends. I believe I’ve seen voodoo zombie movies where folks know what they are. It may make an interesting film. The protagonist realizes what they are, but folks don’t believe him until it is too late.
The Night Stalker film had an interesting concept; the authorities don’t officially believe in vampires, but help the protagonist kill it. When it doesn’t turn to dust, they run him out of town, saying that if he tells anyone about it, the will charge him with murder. 
Heck, in some of the later Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock tells Watson “So, you gonna write this one down, too?”
More or less.
The alternative would be to have zombies, but with drastically different rules ala Return of the Living Dead (“You mean the movie lied?!”). World War Z also does it, but to a lesser extant. It’s clear that the Zombie Survial Guide was published in a world where both voodoo zombies & Romero-style zombies exist, since he explicitly contrasts “real” zombies with them.
You’re absolutely right. It’s given them a baby that’s only around in every third episode and only causes them the slightest problems in… uh, I think one so far.
Hey, you know what you get when every episode is about the baby and the related problems?
That’s right, the sixth season of Mad About You.
first, Lori wasn’t a zombie before she got sliced open. second, could you point out when Maggie had displayed any sort of reaction to what she had to do to Lori, outside of that episode where it took place? finally, you’ve misunderstood what i was trying to say. when you murder someone and then later rob a place, it’s real odd when everyone comments on the robbery and ignore the murder.
YMMV, but it brings me out of a movie to see a parallel universe similar in every way except for the knowledge of such a specific thing. it’s a minor issue though, like product placements or the lack thereof.
Something more interesting than Season 3 of Walking Dead?
(I didn’t say the eps had to be about. I just hate it when major plot points are shelved at the convenience of the writers.)