title: Rape and the Straw Man: A Response to Lindsay Kelland.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benatar
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011902:Rape / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: rape; sexism; straw man; violence