Indeed, the focus on rape victims creates a malevolent dynamic.
It's a harsh reality that most multiracial offspring of this era were the result of rape, an entirely lopsided power dynamic, or both.
Our approach to rape should break the power dynamic, not reinforce it.
"That inherent power dynamic feeds right into rape culture".
Considering that nearly one in five women in the U.S. has experienced rape or attempted rape, if this proposed dynamic is real, it may have a serious impact on the way sexual encounters play out. .
And as dynamic as the young Mike Tyson was, next came his rape conviction and the biting of Holyfield's ears.
The dynamic is familiar to any former law student: a criminal law class on the definition of "consent" in a rape case is paralyzed when a woman in the back row says she was raped.
Pulling no punches, Vincent rightly also deals with rape (no children onstage though), which she handles sensitively but unflinchingly, first by desexualising it in order to reveal the power dynamic, and second by focusing on the trauma of its aftermath.
