Newsgroups: soc.men,soc.women
Subject: Re: Sexual victimization of 13 year old boy
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com (Michael Rivero)
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:30:14 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA

In article <carol.721348412@ee.uts.EDU.AU>, carol@ee.uts.edu.au (Carol Gibson) writes:
|> 
|> 	I believe sexual abuse of boys to be far more common than
|> is realised because of the massive stigmas attatched to it. A boy who
|> has been abused by men or boys will be seen as gay in the homophobic,
|> patriachal society. A boy who has been abused by girls or women will
|> either be seen as weak, or will be expected to have enjoyed it. These
|> misconceptions are a direct result of patriarchy, and are not a plot
|> by women to have men's problems ignored.
|> 

  'Fraid not, Carol. There has indeed been a deliberate attempt by
feminist media to deliberaly play down men's problems in the same
breath that women's problems were played up (and exaggerated for political 
gain).

  
    In 1986, Strauss & Gelles conducted a study on domestic violence which
included statistics for violent wives. They were attacked in the press
for having included such statistics at all in their report. 

    Likewise, Coramae Mann, a criminologist at Indiana University, was 
publicly criticized for publishing her study which showed women to be
violent towards their husbands.  A similar study done by the New York 
District Attorney was suppressed because the results would be politically
unpopular.

   The same feminist factions which supported exhonerating women who kill
abusive husbands are equally vocal in opposing any concessions for men
who kill abusive wives.  The furor that erupted when Eddie King
killed his wife Betty in clear self-defense came from exactly the same
factions that cheered the woman who set her sleeping husband on fire
while he was asleep in the "burning bed" incident. 

  The most blatant example can be seen in the area of homelessness. The
pro-fems have painted a media pixture of homeless women and children,
although women and children actually account for only a small portion 
of the total homeless population. In order to secure grants and funding for
homeless women's shelters, the numbers of male homeless have been deliberatly 
downplayed by the operators of women-only shelters.

  Likewise, materials provided as "support" for legislation contain
biases. Some of ths studies used to support Senator Biden's Violence
Against Women Bill painted a picture where women were always the victim
and men were always the abuser. There was "proof" that there were no
female abusers or male victims. Even after being discredited, these
factoids became part of the legislative package, whch resulted in
laws which specifically target men as abuser, while totally ignoring 
men as victim. This was not an accident, it was designed in, to ensure that
whatever funds were made available for associated services would be made
available to women only, and not shared with men.

  And, it is inevitable that it should be so. As it was in NAZI
Germany, and as it was during the COINTELPRO ops against the blacks
and the native Americans, any special interest group cannot get
special priviledges under the law unless the opposing group is
made to look bad to the public, and the way to make that group
look bad is to accuse them of all sorts of crimes, while burying the
fact that they might have any problems of their own. 

  No, it's not a plot "by women" per se, most of whom are (just like 
most men) hard working, honorable and decent people who want the best 
for their families. But there has been a deliberate media campeign
operated out of the offices of women's political groups, and part of that
campeign has been an obfuscation of men's needs and problems, the better 
to keep all the attention (and funding) on the women.


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