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It doesn't end there, frankh. One thing I noticed in the media a few years ago is that they will not identify a female victim of rape, but they *will* identify an adult male victim, because sexual assaults against men are not considered "rape" by the news media.
Specifically, in my home town there was a hispanic man who was raped by a group of other men in broad daylight downtown. They disrobed him and held him down while sliding a thin piece of copper wire into his urethra.
Every single paper that reported the incident named the victim. The paper I worked for wouldn't even run the story (and I would've been the "lucky" guy to have reported it) because our female editor said "that's not news."
I countered: "If this had happened to a woman we would be splashing it six columns across the top of the front page."
Her answer: "That's not news."
I really hated that woman.
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People still believe that male rape is impossible. I took a lot of flak from my writer's group for the rape scene in "Friends to the End," and half a dozen of the guys said it was ridiculous, ludicrous, or impossible. (These are only the printable responses ;>)
So it's a case of refusing to believe something even though your five senses tell you it is true.
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Hey, Trudy, is there a place on-line where one might read "Friends to the End?" I'm interested.
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...half a dozen of the guys said it was ridiculous, ludicrous, or impossible...
Alas, another roadblock for men's activism is that the patient denies his need for the treatment. I think we need to expect that men are going to reject the movement just as much if not more so than women, since it puts men in a "victim" light, and nowhere in the masculine code is there an allowance to be a victim (nor should we embrace or revel in victimology - however, the opposite alternative is worse because to deny that one can be hurt is to deny that one is fully human).
Part of the reason feminism has succeeded as well as it has is because it builds off of an image of women that society has had all along - that women are weaker, more easily hurt, and need to be protected. That's one row feminists didn't have to hoe. But "masculinists" (not a good word, I know - but what else is there to describe men's activism besides "men's activism," which gets cumbersome) have double duty, because we first have to demolish the idea that men are indominable creatures, bequeethed with every possible luxury and security.
People (and men more so than women, I think) have a real problem accepting that men can be raped (by men or by women), that men can be battered by women and can also be sexually molested by women. Each of these issues blatantly contradicts our prevailing wisdom that men are 1) physically indomitable (thus the rape and domestic battery skepticism) and 2) so pantingly addicted to women and sex that no sexual contact with a woman could ever hurt a man in any way (thus the sexual molestation and sexual harassment skepticism).
Some feminists will tell you that all of this is designed to make men look superior. On the surface, perhaps it is. But in essence, it is men forfeiting a huge chunk of humanity to women as well as saying that men are sexual reprobates.
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by Anonymous User on Thursday July 19, @10:58PM EST (#5)
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Actually, I wouldn't call that assault "rape." Rape would be if they anally penetrated him or forced fellatio was involved.
Before anyone gets upset, I think what happened to that guy was something worse than rape. IMHO, "sexual torture" would be a far more accurate, appropriate description!
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Not trying to start an argument, I'm just wondering why you would only define rape as anal penetration or forced fellatio. By inserting a wire into that man's urethra, he was sexually penetrated. To me, that would be rape. Forced fellatio (although I still consider that rape) sounds less like rape to me than urethral penetration.
Anyone know if any states have an official legal definition of male rape?
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