Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43782881-20200803074517/@comment-27950421-20200804013337

Gnomehunter wrote: '''The lack of support for male abuse victims-you’re right, it needs to be better but  it’s not a competition for who gets justice The exact same advocacy feminists do for rape victims can be used to help male rape victims. It can be extended to help abuse victims. Feminists act on the desire to prevent harm to people, which is why it’s so baffling to see this consistent claim that feminists are glad for men to get hurt. I can assure you they’re not. But the US, where I speak from, has a lot of work to do in general with the justice system. In the field of education, one goal of feminism is to increase education around consent, teach kids about the importance of bodily autonomy so when they’re older and learning about sex ed, they have a healthier base understanding about how to respectfully interact with people. These efforts would be huge in reducing rape rates for both men and women. '''

I'm not making this a competition I said I didn't want to do that from the start. I'm showing how men are outright ignored. I don't want to have more funding for male abuse shelters than female ones, I want there to be enough abuse shelters for men to meet the needs of abused men.

The fact is, feminism treats abuse, rape, and violence as a woman's issue and it only helps women, there's a reason why there's only one shelter for men in the US and I think you can understand why the men, who are often portrayed as the abusers and are being left high and dry might feel as though they are hated.