Greta75
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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick We, as a society, need to stop telling men that they are somehow failures as men if this happens to them, or if they don't just shut up and deal with it "like a man". We need to let them know that it is not their fault, that it does not diminish them as men, and that it is perfectly OK for them to be devastated by a devastating event. Edit: And that is my considered opinion as an ardent feminist, based on my understanding of what feminism is. Anally raped by another male, they may feel like failures. And it's about perception, honestly if you think about any male you care about get anally raped by another male, personally for me, the first thing I would be worried about is if he would get suicidal. I'd be on suicide watch. I take it very seriously. I think most people, male or female would know the severe damaging effect of this to a male. But from whatever I experienced with my brother who was raped by a woman. He wasn't so affected by it. He just thought, it was serious bad luck. But he didn't exhibit signs of any trauma, withdrawal, everything went as per normal, he did not get withdrawn or depressed. He got over it very fast. Doing well in his job, still active, and involve and positive. Great relationship with his fiancee. I was monitoring him closely. And didn't see any signs of downward spiral. Whereas if it is a female. CONFIRM lots of signs. I think there is a huge difference on the impact of when a male gets raped by a female, versus when a male gets rape by a male. I think it's also the psychological action of, anally raped is being penetrated, that's what causes trauma. Whereas a male being raped by a female is like, simply being forced to penetrate into someone. Like, it doesn't threaten a man's manhood when he talks about female raping him, but it threatens his manhood if he talks about male raping him. My brother is in his early twenties when this happened. His rapist was a woman in her late 40's.
< Message edited by Greta75 -- 12/8/2016 7:03:48 PM >
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