[ SECRET POST #2008 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2008 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not talking about able or unable, I'm talking about what happens in practice [see the first response to my comment from the lawyer's partner above for a taste] and how male power is upheld and encouraged by social expectation and conditioning.

In theory, women are "able" to physically/emotionally abuse men. However, men are not, in practice, more than a small minority of abusees, specially in het partnerships. So to talk as though the situation is entirely equal in this, and in custody disputes, and free of the context orf *what actually happens*, is disingenuous of you and my point stands.

[(Anonymous)]

You have to take into account, though, the shame put upon abused men and the different attitudes towards boys who are sexually abused by women. Women are encouraged to report abuse; men are laughed at for it. Underage girls who have sex with men are seen as victims; underage boys who have sex with women are seen as studs. Law enforcement is much quicker to act on cases of men abusing women than women abusing men. Women abusers are far less likely to go away for their actions because there is an assumption that any abuse is warranted. In cases of abuse, a woman's word holds more weight than a man's. So you can't say men are rarely abused so it doesn't matter if they are.

The thing is, there are a lot of things women can do regarding their children that men can't, a lot of privileges they have that men don't. Abuse doesn't temper these in any way. Society encourages women to report abuse, rape, and sexual assault, but finds it a personal fault if a man is abused and there is a strong belief that a man cannot be raped or sexually assaulted by a woman. This makes any statistics unlikely to be an accurate reflection of the truth.

[diet_poison]

I think abuse of men by women is way more common than you think. It's almost always emotional/psychological abuse in those cases and it definitely happens.