 Women may not identify their victimization as rape for many reasons such as feelings of shame, embarrassment, non-uniform legal definitions, reluctance to define the friend/partner as a rapist, or because they have internalized victim-blaming attitudes.The public perceives these behaviors as 'counterintuitive' and therefore, as evidence of a dishonest woman.During the assault, a person will respond with fight, flight, freeze, friend (sometimes called fawn), or flop.