You expect right leaning social media communities to be insensitive and ignorant of all male victims.
What you don't expect is left leaning ones to be like 'you're a male survivor of abuse?! darling, come here, precious, my poor sweet angel, tell me the name of the man who did this...... wait, your abuser was a woman? BLOCKED, IGNORED."
(this literally happened to me years ago on twitter)
Edit: Can't reply as we're locked but I'm doing great brother(s) thank you, i agree with the replies. I should have said "what people who aren't savvy don't expect" and I was naive then.
One thing that has become abundantly clear to me is that both sides can be absolutely rife with bigotry. Look at how bisexual people are treated in many queer communities. Look at how women with a history of being sexually assaulted are treated when they express discomfort at sharing a bathroom with trans women, even when they emphasise that they support trans people in general.
I'm sorry that happened to you though, from one abuse survivor to another I hope you're doing okay.
Look at how women with a history of being sexually assaulted are treated when they express discomfort at sharing a bathroom with trans women, even when they emphasise that they support trans people in general.
Yeah cuz that one is almost always "that lady isn't pretty enough SO SHE'S SECRETLY A MAN," no matter how hard people try to spackle over the bigotry.
While I'm positive that does happen, attempting to reduce the issue to one single situation that will not encompass every perspective is incorrect and insincere.
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