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Lost faith in humanity part 1 how male victims are treated

  Male victims of DV, SA, and rape exist.   Why does this concern me and why should it matter to me? Because it exists, it happens to men as it does to women. Everywhere you look; billboards talk about female victims of DV, human trafficking, SA, and rape. Pushing the narrative that men are abusers, rapists and pedophiles. A small minority of men and a small number of women do too. It’s a human issue and yet society treats it like it only happens to women, never men. It’s not a wonder why men don’t report their abuse, their rape to anybody. They push the lie that 99% of rape is committed by men. Crime documentaries talk about female rape victims almost always but never mention a single male victim of rape. Law and order and CSI touch on that sometimes, but no one seems to be too concerned, “If this is happening to boys and men, why are we not hearing about it outside, or why are the people in charge not doing anything about it?” Male victims of DV, SA, and rape happene...

why can't we speak up?

 Why is it so hard to speak up?   We don’t know how a person may respond. We also get inundated with messages that basically tells us to shut up. What is society so afraid of if we were to speak?   Are we really ok?   This is a message to everyone, it doesn’t matter who you are; We can be going through all kinds of things; jobs, school, drugs, alcohol, family, relationships, cancer, loss of loved ones, discrimination, abuse, sexual assault, rape, bullying, and more.   Why is it so hard to speak up?   Are we just to remain silent and bury our pain? Why does everything have to be a competition? “They had it worse.”   “just man up.” A message that is said so much, but never helps.   Are we really just weak as they said? Are we really just the snowflakes as they claim we are? Are we supposed to be like the guy who says, “if he dies, he dies?”   Are we supposed to be just pretending everything is all fine and dandy ...