"If you're not a Feminist, you're a Sexist"

[MJ the Skeptical]

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?

So the scale of which something bad happens (assuming you're right) means we leave the men out of the discussion? Nah, that's why feminism seems pretty sexist because they will get intelligent people like yourself to make statements like you just did about leaving men out since it doesn't happen to them as much..wow. I don't think that's reasonable at all to suggest men shouldn't be worried about rape either, seeing as how the #1 rape method today is date rape and you wouldn't see it coming.

The 1 in 4 stat is pretty out-dated wouldn't you say? especially in the states where rape has declined. We're talking about a stat that was around before porn, that alone made rape go down. I'm not even sure that stat is even accurate because then there really would be a rape culture in the sense that it's patriarchal and against women. Unless they're talking about worldwide it's 1 in 4. But if you include prisons, then male rape would be just as high or maybe higher. Rape is a hard case to prove so it's hard to sling stats one way or the other.

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..And actually, male domestic abuse does happen a lot but it goes unreported likely because it isn't taken as seriously. So again, we should include all genders. Egalitarianism.