AtUrCervix
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact This is as good a place as any. Believe it or not, there are some things that rm says that I agree with. There SHOULD be support services for men. I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to say 'half the money spent on services should be for men,' because frankly, that's not how the money is being used. We still need to make an effort to encourage men to report. The stigma is high for men and we need to be working on that. Now, I know that we're on a kink site and there's always a lot of bluster about whether people have the RIGHT to leave, or to have all of their money controlled, and other fun stuff that we do in the name of BDSM. Whatever it is that people think, yes, you DO have the right to leave an abusive relationship. Your gender, age, race, religion, sexual or kink orientation don't change that. What we probably should be doing is giving folks tips and advice about HOW to get out of DV situations, because THOSE situations are what are ruining people's lives. Careful, LP. You're showing approval for stuff that *feminists* have approved of. However, feminists have also approved of e.g. jokes about killing men. So if you have approved of that stuff, making you a feminist, then you must approve of the idea of it being fun to kill men, too. I am shocked and saddened that you approve of jokes about killing me, LP. I'm not...(not as to LP...that's a sideline issue)...I'd venture at least 35% of women don't understand or respect the value that men bring...(I'm being generous...I think...I don't actually know the %'s)...I'm stunned that more men haven't stood up and said "enough with this one sided discussion". Television shows (across the globe) for decades have put men in a lesser position, even as the world wants...indeed....demands....us (men) to step up...to support women, to stop child abuse...a million things (all absolutely right...guys...we're designed to go build shit...bring shit home...slay dragons...it's what we do...chics ALWAYS know better what's needed)...it's always the men that are expected to stand up and make these issues either go away...or be front and center and...it should be the men...because we carry the water. But...when men are socially sidelined solely because they have a penis....that's when I question the long term value of the direction of this conversation. As women have demanded that men stand up for them over the last 60 years (and they should), I'm stunned that women have (collectively...and in unison) stood on the shoulder of the road, protected from EVERY vicissitude, while men continue to be abused socially. Globally. It's about time women stood up for men.
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