Men should be offended . . .

[chervilant]

352. There you go,

being all defensive again. I don't share resources because I 'assume' that I'm "better read than everyone else." I share resources because I am an advocate, and have been for better than thirty-five years. I hold a master's in Sociology. I have created and facilitated numerous support groups for survivors. I have lectured numerous times about relationship violence, and was among the first to assert that high school and college students are experiencing relationship violence as often as are marital and conjugal partners. I am myself a survivor, which both informs my advocacy and affords me many opportunities to achieve further insights about my own recovery.

Your responses herein above suggest that you've a woefully inadequate understanding of rape, rape culture, patriarchy and feminism -- especially concerning since you have a daughter. Your defensive posture suggests you're not open to exploring the resources I've suggested. That's okay. I may share resources, but I don't demand that those for/with whom I do advocacy use those resources just to placate me.

I encourage you to consider that whatsoever you work the hardest to push away (deny), often is the very thing you most need to scrutinize.