Found this post on Twitter/X and felt it was worth sharing, and flaired it as progress as I feel it definitely counts whenever there's any awareness on the subject of men/boys being victims of violence and abuse by women (which absolutely happens, much like it's counterpart). Worth noting a woman posted this as well, which was refreshing and uplifting to see, and she's right on the money. Men/boys being harmed by women's violence is just as terrible, appalling and indefensible as the other way around, and for too long has been a deliberately taboo and ignored subject. We're not trying to derail or deflect from the equally real and serious issue of VAW, merely just trying to get it acknowledged and recognized that men and boys are also victims of violence in high numbers (by women as well as other men). For much too long this has been made into an issue only affecting women and girls when that isn't true.

This is both true gender equality and actually being liberal, bringing attention and awareness to issues affecting all and not only a select few, and wanting to see changes. Unfortunately in more recent times, being liberal has the negative association and stink of being associated with the W-word (I think you all know which word I mean and I'll refrain from using it due to vast overuse by the Right and thus the negative association they now share). Which equates to not caring about men/boys and their inequalities, and never copping to the fact there's abusive and violent women just like there's men who are as such. This is yet another major reason more men are shifting to the Right. I've always said this, but male victims of female violence are just as valid and deserving of help as their counterparts. It goes without saying that male and female abusers and offenders are equally contemptible and deserving of the same punishments.