Reminder, a feminist organization is currently pushing the UK government to eliminate funding for male victims of domestic violence

437 points37 commentssubmitted by Vista_Seagrape to r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates2

You may have seen this petition to Parliament calling for "gendered" DV services. Coming from a political feminist organization, we know this is code word for ignoring men, and will help erase male victims. They don't explicitly spell this out in their petition, but history shows us that whenever feminist organizations or academics lobby for DV laws or create theory on DV, it always ends up essentially eliminating any recognition of male victims.

Womensaid is the organization behind the petition.

This is on their site:

We define domestic abuse as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. It is very common. In the vast majority of cases it is experienced by women and is perpetrated by men.

And then, under their myth section, go to #8, it's an entire section that does it's best to minimize and erase male victims. Never once does it say "but men can be victims too."

When people say "oh MRAs are just reactionary against feminism, and they are more about being anti-feminist than helping men", no, that's not true. I am not against the principle of feminism, being equality for all. We are against the actions of specific political organizations, such as womensaid, because they so often directly attack the basic rights of men. This is just another example of that.

This is also an example of hypocrisy- feminists claim they oppose gender roles and stereotypes, and yet the language used by womensaid directly perpetuates gender stereotypes. They are essentially the claim that either women aren't capable of being abusive/violent, or simply that women never are. This is obviously ridiculous and untrue, as there are countless stories of men stabbed, abused, and sleeping outside in cars and tents. So am I against the idea of feminism? No. Is is an example of feminism being used to hurt men? Yes, and I oppose it 100%