Does anybody else think there's sort of a rape culture surrounding men too?
First, let's take a look at the definition of 'rape culture': a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse.
Society often normalizes sexual abuse against men. Look at how we refer to touchy elderly men who creep on young women: creepy, gross, perverted, pedophiles etc. Meanwhile, elderly women who do the same to young men are called 'cougars', a much less serious word, as if they're a normal type of woman who does no harm.
If a woman is groped by a man, it's considered inappropriate and gross on the man's part. But if a man is groped by a woman, he's considered 'lucky' or it's treated as no big deal, even funny sometimes. Some people even think you can't rape a man since men "always want it" and are expected to always be in the mood for and not refuse sexual activities. I'd imagine those kinds of expectations would lead to a lot more people justifying rape or sexual coercion against men than what statistics may say.
Society also trivializes sexual abuse against men. In many countries, only men can be charged with rape since rape is considered 'non-consensual penetration with a penis' legally. So, that lets female rapists off the hook - and considering you need a certain level of attraction towards someone to rape them, I'd theorize most people who rape men are heterosexual women. How can we say female-on-male rape rarely happens and point to statistics saying men rarely get raped when the law doesn't even recognize certain types of rape that are more likely to happen to men? At best, female-on-male rape is considered 'sexual assault' and often carries a lesser charge... if the police even believes a man who reports getting raped by a woman, and if the male victim even comprehends that what happened to him is 'rape' since it's very rarely acknowledged as such.
That's all trivialization and normalization of sexual abuse.
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