Chesterfield91
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IN response to a statement in the thread dealing with prostate cancer, I felt that it needed its own thread.
Now depending on how you define victimization, there are various ways to consider this bold and general statement.
Doing a google search on the term only resulted in statistics dealing with crime, broken down to race, religion and sexual orientation.
Under these statistics, most males were less likely to be victims of violent criminal acts than women.
In the health industry, the cost of developing a drug like Viagra runs about the same as developing a new birth control pill. As far as the idea that prostate cancer gets less funding for research than breast cancer is laughable, at least in the US.
Considering the vast difference in the number of men to women in extended care facilities or other retirement centers, it would seem that a male's continued health is a bit more of a priority than that of a female.
The real area of male victimization is in the media.
Males are more likely to be portrayed as the deranged killer in a slasher movie, the serial killer in crime dramas, and the cliche' sexual predator, even though there have been more than a few female teachers that have taken sexual advantage of male students.
Thus, men are portrayed as the one to fear. Men are the killers, rapists, bombers, mass murderers and serial killers.
Although I am not sure that could actually be referred to as victimization, it would seem to be more of a problem of type casting.
In fact men are more likely to be the victim of violent crime, including domestic violence:
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/vsxtab.cfm
And yet all we here is "stop violence against women". Feminist run domestic violence shelters mostly turn male victims away, and feminists very often deny that men are anywhere near as much victims as women are. Check this video out where feminists disrupt a forum on battered husbands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qodygTkTUYM
Erin Pizzey, the first woman to open a domestic violence shelter, was harassed, received death threats, and was run out of the country with a bomb scare by feminists, because she wanted to help male victims of domestic violence too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhliqceyoL8
And it's the same with sexual abuse. Many feminists who have tried to speak about female on male sexual abuse has been attacked and driven out of the movement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpr3hr0K30
As well as this, violence on men is often seen as comedy. How often in films do you see a woman slap a man in the face, or kick him in the balls, and it's supposed to be funny? I find this disturbing because it's gone so far that people like Sharon Osbourne can openly ridicule a poor man on TV who has been genitally mutilated by his wife just for filing a divorce: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muuFygvXPAM
Feminists recently also disrupted an MRA event where the talk was on stuff like male suicide, males in education etc. They became violent, blocked entry, and they call it hate speech. Skip to the 4 minute mark where a feminist gets right in a man's face, verbally abuses him, and calls him a "rape apologist incest supporting woman hating fucking scum", all because he wants to hear a talk about men's rights. It's fucking ridiculous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARHCxAMAO0
Also a video where feminists tear down men's rights posters calling it "hate speech": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jz63_lGuSE
People still think that it's bullshit that men aren't allowed to complain and fight for their rights?
< Message edited by Chesterfield91 -- 1/6/2013 5:20:50 AM >
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RE: Male victimization in modern society. - 
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