Mambo Mouth Performance

I thought that the Mambo Mouth performance was a great way to show how power is used within human relationships and the impact in which power can have over people. The skit portrays a Hispanic woman who basically gives a monologue on her experience with rape. While it is interesting how comedy can seem to lighten a seemingly devastating and horrific situation portrayed in this skit, one thing that really stuck out for me was the motion of revenge. In the relationship portrayed in the skit between the man and woman, it is the man who is exerting his power over the woman through rape, not once, but multiple times. Over time it seems that the woman's attitude changes from being hurt to feeling anger, pain, and devastation. This message really hit home as to what we have been talking about in lecture and discussion in terms of the human experience and the role that power has over it. Power, seemingly if not balanced, creates the possibility of oppression of the powerless and corruption of the powerful. Overall, the skit "strips the sheets" off of what is rape and exposes the experience of rape. It truly was interesting and powerful and I really enjoyed it.