Similarly, when women testify against powerful men, e.g., about their sexual and other abuses, there is a marked tendency to discount their word—as opposed to when they testify in these men’s favor, whereupon testimonial injustice becomes much less of an issue. So, again, such dismissals are neither random nor universal for speakers who belong to a particular social category. Instead, they often work to uphold and sustain existing social hierarchies.
