u/Derian23
They complain that women, and more specifically, feminists invalidate men's experiences of sexual assault. But the moment something like this happens, they themselves end up trivialising rape. My heart goes out to men who are forced to endure in silence.
I often come across men who claim that feminists refuse to take their complaints about sexual assault seriously. I have heard many echoing the same view. Yet, each time there's a news article about a man being raped or sexually assaulted, it is men themselves start trivialising the incident. The comments section is almost always filled with men wishing they were just as "fortunate". Some men even mocked the victim for making such a complaint. One can only imagine the toll these kinds of comments have on men who are being sexually abused or exploited. There's so much stigma attached to rape. But it only gets more difficult for victims of sexual abuse to speak up when they are gaslit into thinking that they are insane for resisting sexual coercion. I wish we could dismantle this stereotype that a man's sense of being sexually violated is not valid.
u/Derian23 — 3 days ago