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I have not felt real hope in many days. Thanks for giving this back to me. If a liberal can recognize that the pain of a man hurts just as badly as the pain of a woman, maybe there can be a path forward.
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I believe part of the path forward is to set aside the comparison of men to women. There is no benefit to men, and some women will never concede to the stats that demonstrate men suffer the same as women. Instead of focusing on the point that *people* experience pain, the dialogue gets sidetracked onto who has it worse than the other, men or women. There are financial and political reasons to continue to push the false belief that women experience DV, rape and assault almost exclusively. I believe it is a lost cause, men will not convince women they are not the only sex that has victims. We are decades behind the conflict and fighting that conflict doesn’t help the men who are victims.
Instead, men need to focus on the men who are victims, provide support, continue to lobby for services and speak out against the normative behaviour that many women and some men want to maintain – that only women are victims and men should just suck it up. If men do not take care of their own destiny then there are not enough women interested in the well being of men to oppose those women who do not want men helped.
If men want change in the way we are perceived and the way we are treated then men have to step up and be that change. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Men are capable of world-changing feats of engineering, building and legislation when they work in common cause. Men have access to their own money, they have their own vote. Men can be the change that men need. We’ve done it before and we will do it again.
There’s a lot that goes into making a man. Women are born but Men are Made. Perhaps there is indeed a new awakening among men today. A sort of call to raise a better generation of men for the future. One can only hope.
I just read a great book that puts it in perspective and reviewed it. Check it out.
http://enlightenedbeast.com/review-the-way-of-the-superior-man/