Reblogged recoveringwithyou
“Men get raped too”. Why is there a “too” there? Men get raped. This is a huge problem, it is an important issue, and it deserves it’s own platform. The “too” only shows up to silence women when the conversation is centered around women survivors of sexual assault.
The people who use that “too” are actually doing male and female survivors a huge disservice, they are feeding the sexual assault silencing machine society has created.
You see, they are using a serious issue like male rape to silence women instead of working on giving it its own platform. This has a massively adverse effect. It trivialises male rape instead of amplifying it. Which goes to say a majority of the people using it are not victims themselves. And that is deeply upsetting because not enough male survivors come forward, there are not enough platforms for them, there is certainly not nearly enough support and they NEED it. If people were showing up on male rape conversations saying, “Women get raped too” I would be the first person to shut that down, because how dare they belittle any survivor’s story that way?
Our trauma is not your silencing weapon, it is not your tool, it is not your rhetoric, it is not your narrative. Have some respect.
Nikita Gill, “Men Get Raped Too” (TRIGGER WARNING)
