It's really difficult sometimes to distinguish a victim from a villain. You're not so much of a criminal when your status changes, when there is money involved, when you accomplish something in your life, when you have a career to lose or when you live in a civilized country as a representative of its civilized society. It seems, then, that using someone less experienced and naive for your pleasure is not such a big deal. Are you any better than those who brutally kill and rape? Should you feel guilty for taking advantage of your situation if you're a boss, a husband or a friend and you suddenly feel uninhibited pangs of lust? What should be the punishment for one of the most brutal crimes and why in so many countries men get away with the guilt and punishment, and the woman is to blame? And why years of slavery and apartheid bite back in a different form of segregation, hatred, and brutality? Katie Melua sang:
If a black man is racist, is it okay? When it's the white man's racism that made him that way,
Why people hate for being less privileged and are not afraid to take what was once taken from them? And what if your crime was more or less the same as the one committed by those who you wholeheartedly despise? Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner, John Maxwell Coeztee, Disgrace.
