Marked NSFW for mentions of sexual assault
"men are raped by other men"
This is only true if you use the old definition for rape - in fact, rape by a woman against a man wasn't considered rape until 2013 in the United States. Many studies, including those done by the CDC, still use a definition reflecting that of the old one, which implicitly excludes male victims.
This is strange because they're a government agency - them refusing to use the legal definition for something like "rape" and instead using a definition that implicitly excludes people from victimhood based on underlying factors, when the legal definition doesn't do that is... another, much longer conversation.
If you define rape as "non-consensual sex", then around 75% of male victims - or around 28% of all victims, are male victims of female offenders. (Note: this is actually a similar ratio of women : men as literally every single non-sexual violent crime has of men : women)
"men's issues are caused by other men"
This logic is riddled with fallacies of course - so I usually just like to point out that around 80% of healthcare workers are women (Note: 60% of gynecologists and 48% of surgeons are women) and yet anti-woman bias in the healthcare sector is a well-defined grievance that is extremely commonly touted by feminist sources.
Now, I'm not saying that women's grievances with the healthcare sector don't matter or that they don't exist, they do. And these grievances deserve to be taken seriously.
I'm saying that the contents of the pants of the perpetrator have little to no bearing on the validity of the discrimination, and even if they are true - such as with the male-discriminatory draft being signed into law by male presidents, pointing out such is only done to dismiss people's grievances with society, and as such cannot be done in good faith.
Just because it tends to be done by someone who looks like you doesn't make it any less painful or discriminatory.
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