Sexism in Venus in Fur

"But you know the problem here Tommy? Any way you cut this, any way you play this, it's degrading to women. It's an insult. It's pornography." I found this statement made by Vanda near the end of Venus In Fun incredibly interesting. At first glance, it seems that Vanda (in the play) holds all the power over Kushemski. When you make someone your slave, it's pretty easy to see who has the power in the relationship. However, when you look more closely at the exchanges between Vanda and Kushemski, we see that while Vanda is making the orders, but Kushemski is provoking her to do so; making him the powerful half of the relationship. Seeing this, Vanda (in 'reality'), Vanda switches the roles, and asks to read Kushemski's part to see if that would reverse the power onto herself. Surprisingly, it did not, and Vanda was still stuck in the underdog position no matter what gender role she read for, which leads her to state the previous comment involving sexism. This made me wonder, how is it possible that she did not hold the power even when she was reading the role of Kushemski, who held the power when Thomas read for him. I believe this is a critique on societies steryotypes regarding womanly behavior and personality. No matter how she read it, Vanda was not able to obtain that power within the play because she was either stuck in the roll of unwilling aggressor, or willing aggress-i.