What does a rapist look like?
Brenda Tracy asks this exact question each time she speaks to a group of athletes. The room goes silent after the question. The players don’t move. They just wait for Tracy to answer her own question.
“A rapist can look like anybody,” says Tracy, a rape survivor herself, “we don’t want to think that someone we know is a rapist. Society doesn’t want to think their favorite athlete is a rapist.”
Tracy is one of the nation's leading activists in ending sexual assault on college campuses. She was gang-raped by four Oregon State football players in 1998.