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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 happened a lot more often than people realize, but crime shows never want to touch on that subject. It is because they want to keep pushing the narrative: “Men bad, women good.” Even though they would show male victims, it’s usually homicide or murder by a girlfriend or wife.

Movies and shows would make male victims a joke, like fondling a guy under the table who didn’t want this and it’s supposed to be a funny movie. Switch the gender and you would have an outrage and demand that the people involved be punished for mocking female victims. Teenage boys are often depicted as horny perverts desperate to get laid by an older woman.

What books talk about male victims? There’s rarely anywhere. Go to Barnes and Noble and you wouldn’t find a single book on it. I found a book, “on being raped” in a bookstore in Elliot Bay Bookstore in Seattle, which was sandwiched between two huge books to hide it. And it was just the one and only book I found on it. You could find some books on it on Amazon, but you would have to be actively looking for it. People are trying to hide it, even online.

Online, you would find many people saying the same tiring lie, “99% of rape is done by men!” both men and women commit crimes, and both men and women are victims of these crimes. It’s a human issue, not a gendered issue. But they’ll keep saying it is gendered and they’ll keep dehumanizing men as rapists and abusers when most are not. They never talk about female rapists, pedophiles, abusers, or murderers.

Online, you would find that many people would say, “But men love sex, so they can’t be raped.” I love pizza, but I wouldn’t want to be forced to eat it when I don’t want it! Maybe I’m not hungry, maybe it’s not my favorite kind of pizza, maybe I had pizza yesterday and want something else, maybe I’m sick. Liking something doesn’t mean you can’t say no to it sometimes. It’s dehumanizing men, it’s making men out to be inhuman and incapable of saying no, but they do. Men do say no, they do resist. The sad thing too is if a man refused to engage with a woman, he must be gay. That’s the dumbest thing to say; he could have a girlfriend and didn’t want to cheat on her, he could be just not into her, even if he is gay it’s not a bad thing or justifiable to treat him badly, he could have been a victim of SA or rape himself, it could be many things.

“if he has an erection or cums, then it’s not rape, because he wanted it.” Body response to stimuli, it’s not a sign of consent. Men get erections even when he isn’t wanting it.

This is also why the rape apologists would say, “Only men can rape, because he has a penis.” Rape is forcing yourself against someone’s will. Envelopment of the penis, that constitute rape when he didn’t want it. Also, what can little boys do against adults who violate them? Why do these people defend female rapists and pretend that boys and men can’t be raped?

“He’s lucky, wish I had a hot teacher when I was his age.” Nothing makes me want to vomit so badly than people who think it’s hot to have some older woman sexually assault you as a teenage boy or younger. “But boys are different from girls.” I don’t know what justification there is for that, but no one should be sexually assaulting or raping anybody. Your own sick fantasy is not what everyone fantasizes about. Even if a boy has had sexual fantasies about some teacher, babysitter, or stepmother, it’s not an open invitation to violate him nor is it permissible for any adult to act on that. Real life is not porn!

“But he’s bigger, stronger, he can handle it.” Or “But men are physically stronger, there’s no way he can be raped.” Physical strength has nothing to do with being able to fend off an attack. Especially when it can be calculated and planned. Such as lowering their guard and gaining their trust, slipping them a roofie, trapping them in a compromising position where they can’t escape when they are asleep, drunk, or forced by the use of a weapon, or by blackmail or coercion. Sometimes it can be being attacked where you wouldn’t see it coming, so you’re at a disadvantage. Strength is mostly useless in this regard.

“Stop distracting the issue from the real victims.”

Often times we hear people say that only women are victims of SA or rape and if a man speaks about it, he’s derailing the conversation or making it about him. Nothing can be further from the truth. No one is silencing women, but men are being silenced. Few don’t believe women, and most men do not believe. Even when a man is believed, he is ridiculed with, “You must have wanted it.” “Now you know how women feel” as if men had never been raped since the dawn of time. But they have.

Men and boys get abused, SA, and raped in the military, in prison, in school, by a family member, by religious leaders, by a partner, and more. It happens far more often than people realize and it needs to be addressed. As long as we ignore this, rape against men and boys will continue to happen.

Also, physical assaults are not justified because a man is “stronger.” Never should anyone be abusing anybody. Not to mention that abuse isn’t always physical but emotional, mental, and more.

Women oftentimes belittle, humiliate, put down, call names, threaten, falsely accuse, dehumanize, mock their male partners. Of course, lesbian couples have the highest domestic violence, which is telling.

 

 

 

Men’s emotions are valid and it matters.

 

Too many times I hear a bunch of guys and women saying that men shouldn’t cry or express emotions. Somehow emotions are a sign of weakness. “Do not cry, do not show the world you cry, it’s only permissible if it’s the way I want it, I want a man who would protect me and my family, and it’s unmanly!”

 

Compassion, empathy, emotion, sympathy, bonding, and such are not a sign of weakness nor is it wrong. You can be compassionate, empathic, emotional, and sympathetic and still be strong protective, and brave.

The combination of those things is not unrealistic. It makes no sense as to why men shouldn’t cry or express feelings. I’ve already seen what these types of men who say, “MEN DON’T CRY! STOP BEING A LITTLE NANCY!” are like.

 

We live in a society that pushes for the traditional gender norm of men to be strong, independent, or resourceful. The expectation is that men were supposed to be stoic, fearless, and resourceful like in movies and video games. Men are supposed to be tough, rugged, and thick-skinned. Not afraid of anything. To open up is to be emasculating or unmanly. To open up is to face ridicule, mockery, insults, and even bullying or assaults.

They say you have to “grow a pair.” Because to even utter that you’re afraid or even have a small tear over anything makes you gay or a woman. If you get your leg cut off, you’re supposed to just laugh it off and grab a beer. If a boy is terrified of waters, throw him in, because he’s a little sissy. If he dies, he dies!

Puff up those muscles, and intimidate other men who dare to look at you or at your woman. Your woman is a possession to be kept by you. Kill any man who dares to challenge you or mock you, because you’re so thick-skinned and tough.

Be the Terminator, be Rambo, be like Clint Eastwood in his Wild West movies. Because to be anything less is fruity and deserving of being beaten up and left for dead!

You need to rely on yourself. Whatever happens to you, shrug it off and get back to work. Make some money, raise a family, raise the roof, grab a gun, and threaten little boys who dare to date your daughter! You need to make more money and more resources because to have less means you’re a commie, a loser, a weakling unworthy of walking alongside strong successful men!

Don’t express fear, don’t you dare cry! Haven’t you heard the song in Mulan? BE A MAN! Must be tough, be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire. God forbid should you be less than that, you little worm!

If I lay dying in the street, broken and bloody, are you just going to come to me and say, “Stop being a whiny little sissy and walk it off!” Should I ever have gone through anything horrible in life, I’m supposed to just pretend it didn’t affect me and go on like everything is fine, I didn’t just get assaulted, or raped, or tortured, or beaten up and bloodied, or anything.

“Tim, you look like hell!”

“Well, I was jumped by a bunch of dudes, but I’m alright, I am a strong man, I can’t be beaten! I have balls of steel, I have moves like Jet Li, I’m tough as Arnold Schwarzenegger, I’m fearless and wild like Toshiro Mifune!”

“Damn Tim, despite all the hells you went through, you’re all fine and all, get back to work. You’re still a little wuss, mentioning you get jumped!”

 

Is it so frightening for you to show compassion and offer help? Do you think it makes you effeminate and gay? Are you so evil that you would think so little of others?

 

I wouldn’t want to live in a world like that. Where we wouldn’t help one another, listen to one another, support one another, and show some compassion. If a man breaks down and sobs in front of me I don’t think, “Oh my god, what a fag. Man up, you pussy!” No, I would sit with him, listen to him, support and be considerate and compassionate.

What’s worse is women who are just as venomous as the self-hating brutes that think tears make you gay. It goes to show that women aren’t sugar, spice, and everything nice after all. Just nasty, and spiteful.

Of course, to open up is to reveal yourself to someone who could take advantage of it and hurt you. It’s a good idea to be cautious about who you can trust. But never should it mean you shouldn’t open up at all.  We should care about each other, be supportive, and be a listening ear.

We men may not be all about talking about our emotions, but wanting solutions to our problems, which is why I think that’s exactly what we should do. We do need shelters for men, we do need to make noise about men who are victims and deserving of being heard and supported.

But of course, not like this! No, we men don’t need support groups! No, we just need a good swift kick in the ass. No, men don’t need DV shelters or shelters for homeless men, they just need to stop being babies and grow up.

It’s crap like this is why I’m more and more in line with Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker. ‘How about another Joke, Murray? What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? I’ll tell you what you get. You get what you deserve.”

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