LO1121,

The first thing to remember is that, in the US at least, the vast majority of rapes are committed by family members or acquaintances, not by strangers. That does not really point to the idea that the men feel they have lost power, but that they consider the women they know to be property. This includes date rapes, and incidences like the Steubenville case, where a young woman was drugged to unconsciousness then dragged from party to party and raped by her abusers.

In cases of stranger rape, there is also little evidence that the men performing the rape feel that women have too much power. It's possible, I suppose, that these men will attack women who they see as surrogates for a powerful woman in their lives, but I believe the incidence of such rapes are rare.

Regardless, the problem is that far too many people in this country, both men and women, are all too eager to blame the victim for being raped, rather than to blame the rapist. This is especially true when the rapist is considered a celebrity of some kind. And one of the ways to reduce the incidences of rape is to change the culture that views women as being subservient to men. Educating our children will eventually tip the scales in these kinds of cases.