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In reply to the discussion: I hate to do this thread, but it seems to be time again: I'm a male survivor of abuse [View all]thucythucy
(8,086 posts)This is an extremely important list of points that all need to be told, and told, and told again.
I would add just one more: that just as male survivors are not the enemies of feminists, feminists are not the enemies of male survivors, much as the "men's rights" folks would want us to believe otherwise. What support male survivors receive in this culture--and it's way way too little--is generally the result of the ground-breaking work done by the feminist rape survivor movement beginning in the early '70s. I volunteered at a rape crisis center for ten years, back in the day. Everyone I knew then in the anti-rape movement, mostly women, sometimes men, understood that men and boys can also be targets of abuse, and responded to this fact with the same compassion, sympathy, and skill-set that they used when working with female survivors to help them through the trauma.
IMHO, this whole notion that it's somehow feminists who stand in the way of male survivors getting the help and attention they need is just pure BS.
Thank you again for this post, and best wishes.