Men don heels for domestic violence awareness

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-08-19 01:46

Story here. Excerpt:

'Ryan Kuhn abandoned his red patent leather pumps just halfway into the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event in downtown Hanover Friday evening.

More than 100 men participating in the walk to support victims of domestic abuse staggered down the street together. The pain was too much, Kuhn said, slipping into a more comfortable pair of flip-flops. Anyway, he said, his figured his floral dress would get the point across.'

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Men are victims of domestic abuse too, and nearly at the same rate women are. So why is it that every event dealing with domestic violence benefits women and children only? And why do we continue propagating the falsehood that only men are abusers? On top of this, why do you feel the need to humiliate the men who would help a cause like this by requiring them to cross-dress? This seems like a bunch of misandry disguised as good intentions to me.

I find it interesting how men are willing to do events that benefit only women (i.e. Run for the Cure, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes), yet I've never encountered an event whose beneficiaries are overwhelmingly male, and whose participants are overwhelmingly female. I suppose that in itself pretty much proves that feminism and it's idea that women are so much more altruistic to men than the reverse is a load of crap.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2013-08-19 20:58