Not only is it utterly insensitive, it isn't even a good metaphor - there's no force or unwilling victim involved in getting a sales outfit to give you information about their product. I can see "rape" as a defensible (not necessarily acceptable!) word to use in the context of a metaphor for something equally unpleasant, but then you'd be talking about something particularly nasty in any case. I certainly can't see any situation in which you'd use "rape" as a metaphor for something you're urging anyone to actually do.
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:41 pm (UTC)