The Issue Of RAPE

To bryanac625, enough said.

Never take life too seriously, no gets out alive anyway.

I can also second the idea that the gender dynamic does in fact play a role. This film is actually one of many used in studies of social politics.

For some men, being a man means that they have to prove they are better than any other man. They define themselves by their accomplishments and their performances, which must always be better than other men.
This subject is heavily explored in the field of sociology. It's not only confined to the concept that being masculine means being better than/outperforming other men, but everyone inclusively (women, children, transgendered individuals, etc)- the more people you can feel superior to, the better. An example somewhat (albeit distantly) related to this film is how the voting system in America developed. Originally, females, Blacks, and everyone not (at least) middle-aged White & male were thought/expected to have less education and overall diminished capacity, and therefore were not worthy of being given the right to influence their government in any formally recognized way. In this instance, the (White male) idea of "being a man" was all about being better educated, more worldly, and better able to make proper decisions than literally everyone who was not a White male.

And of course, degrading a man also means taking his woman. Sexual assault of black women was another way to keep a man in his place.
This is one of the ideas that (disturbingly) has failed to diminish as readily as the racial undercurrent it has been paired with. The idea that people (in this case, females) belong(ed) to a man, thereby making them a possession, thereby making them a tool to be defaced in order to effect mental distress upon the owner (a man), is still undeniably present in modern society. To me personally it's always seemed ironic that the idea/mentality of assigning (official or unofficial) ownership of an individual to another individual on the basis of race is generally considered completely wrong, but on the basis of gender, it is still considered by many to be quite acceptable.

It is interesting to contemplate how a person can be a racist and then turn around and want a woman of another color. Maybe that just shows we're not that different after all.
See, this is the difference between what we as humans tell ourselves, and what nature tells us. Society (+the individuals within it) tell us that race matters, for example, because a person is X they'll act this way, or because a person looks like X that makes some kind of difference in who they are & how you should interact with them. Human society is a system created by humans to better able them to function within large groups & survive (theoretically); this is also where racism comes from.

Nature, on the other hand, does not give a **** about race. All humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes & are therefore able to breed with each other. This means Black Female A can mate with White Male A & they can produce offspring. Same thing with a Black Male and a White Female. A large part of (box sexual & non-sexual) attraction is based off of biochemical & hormonal reactions that occur within the body. For the most part, these biochemical reactions cannot be controlled, thereby enabling individuals with prejudices against each other to be attracted to one another despite the fact that their "higher brain" tells them they're arbitrarily supposed to hate each other's guts.