Citation

Kelland L. J. Interpers. Violence 2014; 29(15): 2775-2791.

Affiliation

Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260514526061

PMID

24729129

Abstract

This article attacks David Benatar's claim made in his 2012 book, The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys, that when an individual is the victim of violence it does not matter whether his or her perpetrator is of the same or a different sex. By exploring two related yet distinct phenomena, well documented in the empirical psychological literature, that I call "shattering" and "fragmentation," I argue that when a woman is raped, it does matter that her rapist is male, given that her situation as a woman under patriarchy is partly constitutive of the harm that she suffers.

Language: en