This piece just began appearing on my Twitter feed.
It claims to be magnanimous in arguing that it's not just women who are "oppressed by the patriarchy" but men are too! Men can't help it if they're terrible people, it's because they're all rape victims too.
I guess the only reasonably part of that is that rape against men (mainly in prison) is indeed underreported.
http://oliviaacole.wordpress.com/2013/10...aped-boys/
Thoughts?
It claims to be magnanimous in arguing that it's not just women who are "oppressed by the patriarchy" but men are too! Men can't help it if they're terrible people, it's because they're all rape victims too.
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And we wonder why our boys grow up sex-obsessed, equating violence with pleasure (“be a beast at it”), and imagining that rape is only something that happens to women. We wonder why they grow up hating women; women who might look like their abuser, or women who were raped and actually had their violence addressed by a society that believes men are immune from that kind of crime, a crime that when committed against a male goes woefully under-reported.
I guess the only reasonably part of that is that rape against men (mainly in prison) is indeed underreported.
http://oliviaacole.wordpress.com/2013/10...aped-boys/
Thoughts?
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