As part of my first ethnographic fieldwork, I was the victim of rape. In this contribution, I would like to analyze how this traumatic event revealed fundamental issues for the discipline of anthropology, and how I built my future ethnographic practices around it. To address this, I'm going to focus on two central points. Firstly, I'll develop how this experience challenges the androcentrism of our discipline. That is, how anthropology is thought of from a male, supposedly neutral, posture. To this end, I'm going to draw on several works that have marked feminist anthropology past and present. In particular, Dona Haraway's question of situated knowledge, Nicole-Claude Mathieu's pioneering work on androcentrism in anthropology and Isabelle Clair's more recent work on the male privilege of neutrality in field research. Thinking together about my own experience in the light of these works, I will show the androcentric unthinking of gender violence in the field for women and gender minorities and attempt to outline its main consequences. Secondly, I will show how our embodied knowledge and practices as anthropologists urgently need to be thought through the prism of gender. I will show, again through my own experience, how the unthought of gendered embodied experiences in the field can lead not only to female researchers putting themselves at risk, but also to methodological, epistemological and theoretical errors. In conclusion, I'll show that my particular experience of sexual violence led me to a certain turning point: the realization that the anthropologist is not “genderless”, as Luisa Schneider has also shown.