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Originally Posted by Corndogger
Unless it's changed recently my understanding is that few shelters will accept men
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It's true that most shelters (communal settings) are for women, while typically with men they get put into single adult accommodations. Nothing is stopping men from setting up men's shelters but I think the demand for higher degrees of independence is part of why support for abused men trends towards putting them into solitary accommodations as opposed to group homes.
There are also cases where women in women's shelters have assaulted other women, which is partly why some don't accept lesbians. A similar issue would exist in a men's shelter that accepts gay and straight men. And of course trans people add yet another dimension to this.
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Originally Posted by Corndogger
and that law enforcement agencies still operate under the presumption that men are always the abusers. Courts are probably still that way as well.
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Well, I mean, it's law enforcement. There are a lot of things they get wrong, this is just one of them. A lot of medical professionals make the same assumption. Men coming forward is still quite rare, a lot of people in those professions have yet to be exposed to it.
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Originally Posted by Corndogger
Maybe one day people will look just at the evidence of the case and not rely on stereotypes.
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Maybe one day people will point to the evidence, and not to hyperbole based on that evidence. Maybe one day people will use that evidence for the advancement of support for abused men, like I have done, instead of as justification for the oppression of women, like you have done. Maybe.
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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce
If anything masculinity prevents men from coming forward because women don’t respect ‘weakness’ in males and they insult them for not wanting sex with them all the time.
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Society doesn't respect weakness in men.
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Originally Posted by O-tacular
That said, women aren’t the ones leading frat culture. Women aren’t the ones criminalizing homosexuality in Russia. Women aren’t generally the ones patting a guy on the back after he gets raped by or rapes a woman.
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There are countless examples of male figures, Bill Maher comes to mind particularly, who are always quick to congratulate men when they're assaulted by women. My respect for Maher has worn very thin over the years but much of what has worn it down was his reaction to a boy in Florida being assaulted by a teacher a couple years ago, he was practically begging to trade places with the victim. It was ignorant and revolting.