Tru Dat!!!!!. Ithink the reason why canon does not deal w/ male rape well is the gender of the writers. Many men still see/feel rape is a crime of sex & nto assult w/ & to the genitals
Male rape is such a tricky thing. Female victims are blamed for their rapes, but so are men, who are supposed to be strong enough to fight off their attackers, and then there's the whole same-sex angle to deal with.
A lot of men are in such deep denial they don't even consider themselves raped.
Exactly. I mean men have a very hard time dealing with being hit with fists but to be successfully assaulted with genitals to their genitals can be more than then they can handle. And yes they can deny that they were assaulted because to have been successfully raped, to many people male and female, you either wanted it or asked for it. This makes it so hard for victim services to help.
It's one of the few crimes where the victim is viewed as more to blame than the victimizer.
It still amazes me that in our popular mediums, a situation of male rape is presented and then swept under the rug, not acknowledged as rape at all, and there's no follow-up. A soap I watch had a male character raped and his wife blamed him for it, and he never admitted it as rape at all, and it was never addressed after that, and he didn't show any signs of any trauma. It was like mindwipe! It never happened!
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Totally with you! :)
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A lot of men are in such deep denial they don't even consider themselves raped.
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It still amazes me that in our popular mediums, a situation of male rape is presented and then swept under the rug, not acknowledged as rape at all, and there's no follow-up. A soap I watch had a male character raped and his wife blamed him for it, and he never admitted it as rape at all, and it was never addressed after that, and he didn't show any signs of any trauma. It was like mindwipe! It never happened!
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