A new breed of feminist avengers are righting overlooked wrongs
Now and in the past, revenge drama is popular when ideas of power and justice are in flux
HE DOES NOT recognise her, and protests only gently when she handcuffs him to the bed. He is enjoying his bachelor weekend and assumes that this woman, in her short, tight nurse’s costume, is a stripper ordered for the festivities. While she assembles her props she reminisces about her best friend, Nina, whom the man raped at a party when they were students, and who later committed suicide.
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Culture April 11th 2020
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