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In reply to the discussion: Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad. [View all]BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Honestly. I think you should start a consciousness raising thread.
The key is how you phrase it.
The reason you are seeing "backlash" responses to your issue is due to the WORDING and ATTITUDE of the post.
Posts which voice an attitude that says, or SEEMS to say that women talking about VAWA and the phenomenon of male violence against women (as well as the cultural normalization of misogyny/sexualization of women) should shut up are not going to be greeted well.
I tried to point out how you sounded in your first reply to me. There are some other posters here sounding like they are implying that women "should shut up because it hapens to men too".
Perhaps that's not what you meant to imply.....so please note that there ARE men on here telling of experiences of being abused by a women (like their mothers, who were bigger and stronger at the time.)
They are NOT getting negative responses.
The difference is in how they're expressing themselves.