Has anyone else felt like they have nowhere to go to for sexual assault support because they reject feminism?

duhhhh · 2021-06-07T02:53:52+00:00

Have you looked at 1in6.org? Pretty much everything is tainted with the male perpetrators only model.

Gamer_Jack_Gameson · 2021-06-07T11:00:55+00:00

I'm thankful to not need those kinds of services, but I agree that they are anti-male. RAINN is not feminist that I'm aware of, but they do seem to believe that men can't be victims, and you can include the National DV Hotline in that assessment, too. Both organizations feature articles in support of Lundy Bancroft, a popular abuse self-help author who is very vocal in his belief that men cannot be victims, although he never uses those exact words. His books are a tinderbox for lighting fires of misandry. I've been slowly writing an expose on the subject.

Here's an excerpt from Bancroft's book, "Why Does He Do That?":

“There certainly are some women who treat their male partner’s badly, berating them, calling them names, attempting to control them. The negative impact on these men’s lives can be considerable. But do we see men whose self esteem is gradually destroyed through this process? Do we see men whose progress in school or in their careers grinds to a halt because of the constant criticism and undermining? Where are the men whose partners are forcing them to have unwanted sex? Where are the men who are fleeing to shelters in fear for their lives? How about the ones who try to get to a phone phone to call for help, but the women block their way to cut the line? The reason we don’t generally see these men is simple: they’re rare.

I don’t question how embarrassing it would be for a man to come forward and admit that a woman is abusing him. But don’t underestimate how humiliated a woman feels when she reveals abuse; women crave dignity just as much as men do. If shame stopped people from coming forward, no one would tell.Even if abused men didn’t want to come forward, they would have been discovered by now. Neighbors don’t turn a deaf ear to abuse the way they might have ten or twenty years ago. Now, when people hear screaming, objects smashing against walls, loud slaps landing on skin, they call the police. Among my physically abusive clients, nearly one-third have been arrested as a result of a call to the police from someone other than the abused woman. If there were millions of cowed, trembling men out there, the police would be finding them. Abusive men commonly like to play the role of victim , and most men who claim to be “battered men” are actually the perpetrators of violence, not the victims….Men can be abused by other men."

This is the kind of drivel that Bancroft writes, and he has the support of these domestic violence organizations.

Title	Has anyone else felt like they have nowhere to go to for sexual assault support because they reject feminism?
Author	redgarnetamaranth
Upvotes	146
Comments	16
Date	June 7, 2021 2:31 AM UTC (2 years ago)
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