An extremely dark article about the ever-present yet often forgotten male victims of rape during war time. Don’t skip this one.
Yet another reminder that patriarchal structures fostering machismo and requiring cold masculinity of anyone remotely male is damaging to all people. So many people concentrate on the misogynistic parts of patriarchy without considering the misandristic parts as well.
As a woman, I feel that I see so much girl-on-girl misogyny. As a girl in today’s Western society, it can be easy to be catty or competitive with other girls or spread hatred by ridiculing them.
However, it seems to me that men perpetuating the hyper-macho attitude by ridiculing men who express emotion or vulnerability is guy-on-guy misandry and deserves just as much examination.
These issues are not addressed as much, and we can see an extreme example in this above article.
I don’t use trigger warnings much, so please be warned - this article can get rather graphic, so proceed with caution if you are sensitive to this type of thing.
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