I have read, in certain reviews, that this movie in some ways also intended to make parallels...

... to how female VICTIMS often feel in such situations. BUT, and here's a question...

If that was the intent, why also have female perpetrators do it here, don't people who are victimized by someone often dislike or find it insulting if one COMPARES them to victimizers whom they rightly see as bad and see themselves as suffering good victims who were terribly wronged?

In one film "Extremities" (1986), the female character has said at least TWICE "Don't compare me with him" etc.

Or...

Do some people, including filmmakers, ultimately realize that, political correctness and convenient black and white thinking briefly put aside, the world is NOT that simple. And heck, occasionally there are even females out there who do wrongful and violent deeds to males as well, making them victims, and that SITUATION wise, exploring such parallels in fictional scenario is both helpful and legitimate.

And that in such matters, we are allowed to focus as much on victims as we are on perpetrators.

And life and reality itself is complex. Besides these things also happening, sometimes, however rare, exceptional cases ALSO happen and are worth exploring in and of themselves. And not just in standard terms either. By the way, here we don't see vengeance, but they also get away legally. TOO or otherwise TABOO to feature a type of scenario of a man (or male victim) exacting vengeance on women (or female villains) and expect anyone to even understand let alone cheer like in standard scenarios? Or MAYBE that or something else but - here, they just HAPPEN to unfortunately get away and made themselves too secret to track down? Cheers.

P.S. Read the BOOK anyone on which the film was based? One of my friends has praised the book for managing to explore a particular kind of sexual trauma on several levels in an unorthodox way. Hmm, something to think about? And let's STOP blindly engaging and indulging in obviously wrong and downright stereotypical fantasies here. Especially, if we see PERSONAL consequences beyond what someone strict in our family once said and beyond existence of the basic law that some may question, and I don't necessarily disagree with EITHER.