Reply #103: if that were always true it would be about power [View All]

[qazplm]

but sometimes it isn't. It can also be about gender roles, and the way men are taught (not just by men, but by women) that persistence pays off, that you keep trying to "woo" someone, etc.

I don't think that is necessarily about power or control. At least not in the individual person's situation. I think the whole rape is always about power/control is simply too simplistic and narrow and not always accurate. It often is about those things, but not always.