Because the problem of widespread sexual violence is so seldom addressed and victims of sexual assault so seldom see justice, the dominant ideas about rape and rapists are skewed by racist and sexist ideas about what constitutes rape and who commits it. Rape as portrayed on TV crime shows is usually committed by a mentally unstable stranger who lurks in the bushes. Another variation on this image of the rapist is the myth of the predatory Black man who targets white women—a myth that has been used as justification for the legal and extralegal lynching of countless Black men.