Criticisms
Christina Hoff Sommers has disputed the existence of rape culture, arguing that the common "one in four women will be raped in her lifetime" is based on a flawed study, but frequently cited because it leads to campus anti-rape groups receiving public funding. Sommers has also examined and criticized many other rape studies for their flawed methodology, and states "There are many researchers who study rape victimization, but their relatively low figures generate no headlines."
Joyce E. Williams has criticised the monolithic nature of the concept of rape culture, due to the implication that ultimately all women are victimised by all men.
Other writers, such as bell hooks, have criticized the rape culture paradigm on the grounds that it ignores rape's place in an overarching "culture of violence."
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