I despise the term "rape survivor". The term "survivor" is reserved for events that could have possibly killed you. There are plane crash survivors, wild animal attack survivors, murder attempt survivors, etc.
Rape is a traumatic physical assault, but unless there was another element to the crime that involved the risk of death, it's not a potentially fatal event and it's inappropriate to use the term survivor to describe people who have been raped.
I despise the term "rape survivor". The term "survivor" is reserved for events that could have possibly killed you. There are plane crash survivors, wild animal attack survivors, murder attempt survivors, etc.
Rape is a traumatic physical assault, but unless there was another element to the crime that involved the risk of death, it's not a potentially fatal event and it's inappropriate to use the term survivor to describe people who have been raped.