as was previously stated, I too see this song as being written about "the inexact nature of emotional circumstances surrounding rape," date rape. statatory rape. etc.
I believe this song is pretty upfront about the situation it is describing. It doesn't leave a whole lot of room for different interpretations.
"They say she got just what she wanted."
I listened to this song after a situation warranting similar feelings. It helped me bleed the wound. There is a profound amount of pain in a situation where the line of fault is not precisely clear cut, and the rapee can't even begin to explain it to anyone if they tried--because the general assumption is that they wanted it. Rape is about domination and violation. Boundaries are broken, and it's even harder to identify where the boundaries laid in the first place if the rapee thought they were at fault for initiating any interest in sex with the raper in the first place. A young girl might think she is a woman, and enjoy acting like one by flirting or acting in a provacative nature, but that wouldn't make it right for a man to sleep with her. A teenage girl might flirt or kiss a boy at a party drunk, but that doesn't make it right for him to later hold her down and force sex upon her.
as was previously stated, I too see this song as being written about "the inexact nature of emotional circumstances surrounding rape," date rape. statatory rape. etc. I believe this song is pretty upfront about the situation it is describing. It doesn't leave a whole lot of room for different interpretations.
"They say she got just what she wanted."
I listened to this song after a situation warranting similar feelings. It helped me bleed the wound. There is a profound amount of pain in a situation where the line of fault is not precisely clear cut, and the rapee can't even begin to explain it to anyone if they tried--because the general assumption is that they wanted it. Rape is about domination and violation. Boundaries are broken, and it's even harder to identify where the boundaries laid in the first place if the rapee thought they were at fault for initiating any interest in sex with the raper in the first place. A young girl might think she is a woman, and enjoy acting like one by flirting or acting in a provacative nature, but that wouldn't make it right for a man to sleep with her. A teenage girl might flirt or kiss a boy at a party drunk, but that doesn't make it right for him to later hold her down and force sex upon her.