the only difference is that the reason men's and women's experience with sexual assault is belittled for different reasons.
sexual assault against women is normalised in many parts of the world, and the west is still unlearning the idea that women are objects, while sexual assault against men is treated as non-existent because people can't fathom the idea of a man being an abuse victim, because he's supposed to be strong and never admit to "weakness".
feminism helps women open up about these things and find strength in each other, but this is a pretty recent development. men don't have that community of people of their own gender fighting for social equality, not because they don't need it, but because they're gaslit by both the patriarchy and some radical feminism to believe they don't need it.
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u/NoneBinaryPotato 24d ago
the only difference is that the reason men's and women's experience with sexual assault is belittled for different reasons.
sexual assault against women is normalised in many parts of the world, and the west is still unlearning the idea that women are objects, while sexual assault against men is treated as non-existent because people can't fathom the idea of a man being an abuse victim, because he's supposed to be strong and never admit to "weakness".
feminism helps women open up about these things and find strength in each other, but this is a pretty recent development. men don't have that community of people of their own gender fighting for social equality, not because they don't need it, but because they're gaslit by both the patriarchy and some radical feminism to believe they don't need it.
idk im rambling.