Re: Male victim

This statement "for so many women that sounds familiar" appears to be designed to minimize his pain as a male victim of rape and abuse.

Is male victimization like this rare, or is it rarely reported because most men know the system isn't interested in their pain?

I know more men who are abused then women. These men never go to the police, they never report whats going on, they believe they should take care of it on their own, partly because they are men and its expected that they shouldn't bother anyone with their troubles and partly because they know no one in power will bother to help them. And, most likely, will treat them with suspicion.

Women should consider themselves lucky they live in a society that falls over itself to help them. And voiciferously condemns women's abusers.

After all, they could be _male_ victims in a society that either ignores them, blames them for their own suffering, minimizes their pain because "women have it so MUCH worse", expects them to fend for themselves even in impossible situations, and is, at best, luke warm about condemning their abuse and their abusers and, at worse, condemns the male victims themselves. Tweet