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The article is pretty gruesome. and pretty old so many of you may have already seen it.

The second half of the article explains more about why male victims of rape not only dont get much exposure but also dont even get counted, much less supported.

Some quotes from the article that really irked me:

The research by Lara Stemple at the University of California doesn't only show that male sexual violence is a component of wars all over the world, it also suggests that international aid organisations are failing male victims. Her study cites a review of 4,076 NGOs that have addressed wartime sexual violence. Only 3% of them mentioned the experience of men in their literature. "Typically," Stemple says, "as a passing reference."

or this:

As part of an attempt to correct this, the RLP produced a documentary in 2010 called Gender Against Men. When it was screened, Dolan says that attempts were made to stop him. "Were these attempts by people in well-known, international aid agencies?" I ask......"Yes," he replies. "There's a fear among them that this is a zero-sum game; that there's a pre-defined cake and if you start talking about men, you're going to somehow eat a chunk of this cake that's taken them a long time to bake." Dolan points to a November 2006 UN report that followed an international conference on sexual violence in this area of East Africa....... "I know for a fact that the people behind the report insisted the definition of rape be restricted to women," he says, adding that one of the RLP's donors, Dutch Oxfam, refused to provide any more funding unless he'd promise that 70% of his client base was female.

another:

"International human rights law leaves out men in nearly all instruments designed to address sexual violence," she continues. "The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000 treats wartime sexual violence as something that only impacts on women and girls… Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced $44m to implement this resolution. Because of its entirely exclusive focus on female victims, it seems unlikely that any of these new funds will reach the thousands of men and boys who suffer from this kind of abuse.

Anyways it especially irks me when Im hit over the head with how women are the majority of victims of rape and then we see all over the place rape being defined as something that can only happen to women so its a double-edged sword for men. Male victims are systematically erased but men at large are fed this narrative that they are the propagators of almost all the evil in the world (and you get women believing it too) and then they trot out this biased research where the definition has been deliberately doctored to give that result. Some of us catch it but it doesnt matter, by the time word gets out that its bullshit policy has already been changed. Like the red cross prioritizing women during disaster relief. (link opens pdf)