(April 11, 2014 at 11:35 am)Quantum Theorist Wrote: I'm not seeing feminists groups raise awareness for male rape, domestic abuse on men or sexual harassment on men or anything for men. Those issues are not taken as seriously in the justice system as when a female is raped or beat up for example. Which is why I'm dumbfounded people think Feminism empowers both genders equally then they ignore the other half of the population with penises.
It's a fair point. The only counter I would offer is a matter of scale. To gauge whether or not certain fears are rational, we often look at how likely the scenario is.
A woman who worries about being raped is simply taking rational precautions about a very real possibility. A man who worries about being raped has issues with his own sexuality. This is because the statistics show 1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifetime (not accounting for how under-reported rape is as a crime). I haven't seen the stats on men but I'll go out on a limb and say it's much lower.
Is the reason they aren't concerned with it because of "how often does that really happen?" or is it because they don't think it's a problem when it does?
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