What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

let’s debunk some MRA bullshit, shall we?

Trigger warning: rape

As many MRAs often point out, men can and do get raped, too; in certain contexts, in fact, men experience the same high risk of rape that women usually do. Worse still, because rape is so often characterised as being exclusively a women’s issue, male victims frequently struggle to be taken seriously (indeed, it wasn’t until last year that the FBI broadened its official definition of rape to include male victims). This is undeniably a terrible issue that needs to be addressed.

However, in their rush to interpret male victimhood as little more than a quick, easy fact with which to derail existing conversations about the rape of women, many MRAs fail to square its implications with another of their favourite (but inaccurate) claims: that an overwhelming number of rape reports are false. As I’m yet to see an MRA claim that men make false reports of rape, too, I’m forced to draw one of two conclusions: generously, that most MRAs simply haven’t considered that touting the rape of men as a hideous, commonplace crime while simultaneously accusing women of routinely making false rape reports is not only contradictory (unless you’re a raging sexist who thinks women lie more than men), but deeply gross; and ungenerously, that most MRAs are, in fact, raging sexists.

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  5. razziecat said: Yes, one of man’s favorite fantasies: That there are tons of women out there filing false reports of rape because they’re angry, jealous, jilted, whatever. Then there’s “it’s worse for men!” syndrome, which applies to pretty much anything that happens to both men and women…
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    !!! Foz Meadows is the best.
  8. obsidianmichi answered: Welp, looks like they’re stuck, huh?
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