26. "I support efforts to correct for our double-standard." In response to In response to 25 Mon Jul-31-17 04:47 AM by denny
My personal opinion....even if we do correct for the double-standard and start empathizing with male victims more proportionally....we should also continue to observe a difference between the experiences of male victims and female victims in the context of opposite sex rape.
For example....if a female perpetrator doses a man with GHB or some other date rape drug....she typically won't be able to force penetration. She can victimize him in other ways of course. But at the end of the day....a passed out female victim is vulnerable to different things than a passed out male victim in heterosexual scenarios. This has implications for STDs....pregnancy....tissue/genital damage. And to be blunt...I think the psychology of being penetrated without consent is different than being used to penetrate someone else without consent.
Here's a question for guys. Would you rather be passed out on GHB with a female rapist or a male rapist? There's a difference. Men need more sympathy, understanding and validity when they experience rape by a female. But we shouldn't try to make that case by appealing to equivalents to female rape victims. To be clear...I'm not accusing this article of doing that. I support the agenda of this article but being raped by a female is not nearly as terrifying to me as being raped by a male and I think most guys would agree.