Citation

Benatar D. J. Interpers. Violence 2015; 30(19): 3419-3423.

Affiliation

University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260514563835

PMID

25526728

Abstract

Lindsay Kelland has taken issue with a claim I made in a book titled The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys. In response to this claim, she has argued that when a woman is raped, it matters that her rapist is a male because "her situation as a woman under patriarchy is partly constitutive of the harm that she suffers" in being raped. In my response to her article, I show that she has taken my claim out of context and thereby misrepresented it. As a result, her article fails to respond to anything I said.

Language: en