raised thousands of eyebrows, and sparked many a gender equity advocates rage when it hit the internet last June. Yet the question is: is mancrimination, or the discrimination against men, of valid existence and if so, should it be taken seriously? Yes, discrimination against men does exist but not in the way the ever so popular, or rather, not so popular mancrimination portrays it. The way the hashtag mancrimination has been publicized is that it covers what could have been an opportunity to talk about legitimate gender issues concerning men. But what mancrimination did is that it turned this opportunity for education into a satire of misinformation. Male rape. Verbal, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Male stereotypes. These are platforms of discrimination against men, platforms which mancrimination should have talked about but were ignored in favor of idiosyncrasies like men not getting free drinks in bars, men having to give their seats up for women and stupid men not being able to be blonde. So in order to be progressive, and not reactive, were going to talk about what mancrimination should have talked about. 1 in 33 men, according to RAINN, in their lifetime are victims of sexual abuse. 1. in. 33. In fact, the age when a boy is most prone to sexual abuse is at the age of 4 years old. While its true that more girls, more women are victims of sexual abuse, it needs to be appreciated that boys too, can be victims of sexual abuse. Young boys are raped but these acts are stigmatized: hidden and unreported, simply because of gender stereotypes, which plague our society. According to data from Home Office bulletin, about 40% of domestic abuse victims are men. But cases of male victims often go unreported because of machismo, and other denigrations of their masculinity. Heterosexual men are looked down upon for allowing themselves to be beat up by a woman. Now, we can so easily blame men for this, for their macho complex. But in a society where, upon birth, one is already conditioned to fit a certain gender stereotype and mold, can an individual really be blamed? Males have so been conditioned by society to fit into the MACHO mold of being dominant, unbending, and unemotional. And it is this stereotype, which not only causes men to be perpetrators of gender issues, but also hinders men from being accepted to be victims of said gender issues. Society needs to transform into one, which shows boys that emotion doesn't equate to weakness, and exerting dominance leads to fear rather than respect. The discrimination against men for showing emotion or for showing stereotypically female attributes, is also an effect of discrimination
against women as being the weaker sex. Gender issues are a battle to be fought not against each but with each other. It is a problem, not only of feminists nor advocates of male rights, but of society as a whole.
Findings of Investigation Into The Actions of Ellsworth Culver Related To Sexual Abuse and The Actions of The 1990S Mercy Corps Board of Directors Related To The Handling of Reports of Sexual Abuse