He alleged that Shanley took him from his one-hour Sunday school class, raped him, then returned him to his classmates.
Surely, lyrics about a 'first-class rape with trimmings" were unsettling even in 1960, when the musical opened.
"It doesn't make sense to do a class teaching rape is wrong, because people who are doing it know it's wrong".
"When there is a state of class conflict, rape is often used as a weapon to teach a lesson," she said.
Stobbart's late complaint would probably have put her, along with many other women, into a class of rape cases traditionally seen as hard to pursue.
There are different levels to the RAW Power curriculum, and the level three class involves rape scenarios.
It raised the question of whether we can really hold a prospective rapist accountable if they're genuinely unaware that what they do – or would do – is classed as rape.
Some events, particularly the 'accidental' penetration reported by some interviewees, were ambiguous in terms of whether or not they would be classed as rape (ie, non-consensual penetration), but we know from Jack's interview that 'accidents' may happen on purpose.
A boy in my class told a rape joke recently.
The resolution was brought by a literature student who said that, as a past victim of sexual violence, she had been shocked when a teacher showed a movie in class which depicted rape, without giving advance notice of the content.
Years later, my mom would admit that she was slightly horrified to realise she'd taken her two young daughters to a movie that she thought was about dancing, but was really about class, feminism, sex, rape and abortion.
