Steve QJ
2 min readJun 29, 2023

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Not true. A 2013 CDC study found that 29% of men in heterosexual relationships have been victims of intimate partner violence (I even gave an example of a man being brutalised by a woman in the article). That's as compared to 35 % of women in heterosexual relationships and 44% of women in lesbian relationships. What a shock! It turns out women can be violent too!

But most men already know this. Do you know why you don't know this? Because it doesn't fit the narrative of "men bad" and so is largely ignored. And the men who find themselves in this situation are dismissively told "you have most of the privileges in society and you STILL complain!!" Or worse, they're mocked for not being "manly" enough. Even though they'd also be demonised if they fought back.

Men don't get pregnant when they're raped becuase men can't get pregnant. Sorry, there's not a lot we can do about this one. Men didn't get together and conspire to make women handle childbirth. That's not something feminism can fix. It's the way we're made. Again, I fully support efforts to decrease that burden. I was horrified when Roe vs Wade was overturned. I wrote about it. But it's just as silly to blame men for this as it is to blame women for the fact that men are enormously more likely to die in the workplace or be homeless or get a tougher prison sentence for committing the same crime as a woman.

But yes, you say that when have to suffer for the idiocy of the women who voted for Trump. So too do men have to suffer for the evil of the far smaller proportion of men who are abusive or rampantly misogynistic. We're all tarred with the same brush over, and over again. Believe me, that's exhausting too.

And for some men, that exhaustion turns into resentment. I'm not defending any actions that come from that resentment. I'm not excusing or making excuses for these men. I'm lamenting the fact that it would be so easy to minimise a major factor that's causing that resentment If we were all better, men and women, at seeing each other as human beings instead of avatars of the worst people in our identity groups.

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Steve QJ
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