Mirror thanks to John Dovey, University of Stellenbosch

Charlize Theron

Real

Men

Don't Tolerate
RAPE

Men Against Rape Site (MARS)

There are appalling statistics in South Africa as far as rape is concerned. The recent advert on TV by Charlize Theron challenged South African men with the statement that she does not know what the "Real Men" in South Africa are like. She implies that this is because the men in South Africa are rapists.

This site is for those REAL MEN in South Africa (and America, or the world) who do NOT rape!

Join the MARS site and tell the world that Real Men are not rapists, nor do we tolerate those who commit rape.

Men Against Sexual Violence

Blessed are the Men of Peace

Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust

Has rape become a way of life almost?

Barry Ronge defends Charlize

High heels balancing act : UP

CS Monitor: advert controversy

MIRROR: http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/mars/mars.exe?
Original MARS site (ZA)

see Susan Brownmiller's classic "Against Our Will" (here is 'Rape and the Racial Divide')

Andrea Dworkin writes

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.