Sexual Violence - Why We Should Rethink Our Neglect of Male Victims TC_Africa: SouthAfrica
is that activists and scholars must rethink their neglect of male victims. Men and boys as actual or potential victims must be explicitly integrated into our understanding of and resistance to sexual violence. At the same time, we must resist creating victim hierarchies or ranks.While there are likely differences in how the aftermath of sexual violence plays out for women and men - think of unwanted pregnancy, for example - there are also remarkable overlaps.
Without forgetting how long it took for women victims to be taken seriously, one must nevertheless ask in whose interest it is that currently there is a systemic erasure of male victims. As long as society trivialises or denies what happens to some men, the degrading injustice done to them is doubled.
First, it is a matter of gender justice. The aim of feminism has never been to invert the gender hierarchy, but instead to fight for gender equality. Ignoring the male victims is gender discrimination. Third, the overt inclusion of male victims can help to create broader solidarities against sexual violence, exposing the delusion that it is a"women's problem". It will show that patriarchal oppression and the sexual violence needed to uphold it is harmful to all of us and destroys democracy.The first reason is a matter of justice. The reality of male rape is most likely to surface in jokes related to prison rape, which trivialises the suffering.
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