‘Man up’ to being a victim

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'The push to empower women could be prompting violence against men.

“You have women who have found their voice and were encouraged to do so, which is a good thing. But are the women in the next generation taking it too far?” questioned Charlane Cluett, Muskoka Parry Sound Community Mental Health Service operations manager.
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“Do they understand the difference between assertiveness and conflict resolution and negotiation versus aggression and threat? I don’t know that we’ve done as good a job as we could in teaching the differences there,” she said. “I wonder if there’s an over-compensation and now we’ve left the men out.”
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“I think there’s a huge deficit in men’s groups, where men can go and talk,” he said. “With both male and female, it’s important to realize what abuse really is.”
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Eby said another obstacle is fear of displacement, since men often have nowhere to go.

“That’s one of the areas that men are at a disadvantage because currently they have to leave Muskoka and go to Simcoe County,” he said. “There is a group that is seeking to establish a shelter in Muskoka, but to my knowledge that hasn’t happened yet.”

Theresa McFadyen, Muskoka Victim Services SupportLink co-ordinator, said fear of losing their children also holds men back.

“It’s an automatic assumption that the female is going to get the kids,” she said. “They tell me they don’t want to lose their kids, so they don’t report.”'