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(34,427 posts)However, the misogyny is perhaps even more emotionally challenging when the victim is male.
Much of the targeting of males (aside form guards in prison) is cast as treating men as women - subjecting them to the power imbalance, helplessness, etc. of the female experience. And it is often far harder for men to come forward because, in addition to the aftermath of sexual assault or rape, they often struggle wtih the shame of being treated as a woman, of fearing that it means they are gay, and - especially with young gay men - guilt at the involuntary physical response that had nothing to do with wanting the encounter.
That doesn't make it not misogyny - because it is very much tangled up with hatred/contempt for women, and forcing men into that subservient role.
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