Gee, I wish there was a button for that...

TICKLING MY DNA!

#18 did you seriously just tell a woman 'at least he's not beating you'? So she should just be grateful and dismiss any other obnoxious behavior from him because he doesn't happen to beat her? FFS. (And yes, tickling her to the point where she flinches every time he touches her IS obnoxious.)

I didn't mean it like that, I'm saying she could have it a lot worse.

#52 Or a lot better.

#52 I know you probably weren't spending too much time writing that comment so I'm trying not to be too harsh/picky (this is FML afterall, it's for fun) but think about it.... following your logic, I could tell a woman who's being beaten by her bf that "it could be worse, at least he hasn't killed you."

My boyfriend knows that I am severely ticklish, and uses it to his advantage. If he wants something and I say no, or if I disagree with him, he'll keep tickling me until he gets his way.

I've have always thought the same.

So if you tickle your child, you're raping them? It's not the same at all.

Except that a lot of kids actually like being tickled. Most kids will scream stop and then when you stop, tell you to do it again. Most adults don't find tickling fun anymore and when them say stop they really mean stop.

*they

If they say "no", "stop", "I don't like that"... Yes. If you do something against a person's will, that's wrong. You've taken control over another person's body. Children typically like tickling. That's fine. Go for it... But this is about respecting boundaries.

I couldn't really care twice if someone tickles me "against my will". There's one or two places I don't like being touched but I'm not going to get up and scream rape. I'm an adult, if I really wanted to stop them I could. It's called hitting them or breaking a finger. There is ABSOLUTELY no context to her story. She probably doesn't say a dang word to him about it and he thinks it's cute because boys are dumb [but I still love them] and he doesn't realize it peeves her. It's going overboard to call someone bloody touching you "rape" it might be them being a dillwad, but to claim it's a form of rape is like.. man I can't even come up with a good comparison without going overboard. If you call someone a rapist every time they do something you don't like "repeatedly" you're going to be the girl who cried wolf.

Except that when you're tickled you actually fully lose control of your body. You can't always stop the person. You're rolling around practically spasming and if they don't stop after a short amount of time it begins to hurt and you can pee yourself. I don't think I need to include the details of rape to show how that's similar. There's a reason people in the medieval ages used to use tickle torture... It's torture. I agree rape is more serious, mostly because most people stop before it gets to the hurting and peeing, but they actually have a lot in common when you compare them.

exactly! like you say "stop" and they respond with "but you're laughing" grrr