This is a short response to this red herring argument.

Yes, males victims EXIST. I see LGBTQ+ men (especially of the trans variety) being shamed for being “unmanly”, male rape victims exist, male domestic abuse victims exist, there are categories where men are shamed in for being male in that field such as nursing, housewifery, cooking, etc. The reality is that women suffer more. The vast majority of victims of rape, domestic abuse, and sexism are women due to the system being designed to subjugate women.

Does it make male suffering any less tragic? No, it doesn’t.

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    It’s also an identitarian argument. If we analyze WHY those behaviors exist, we end up tracing it back to patriarchy. Denigrating a man nurse comes directly from denigrating women, denigrating care work done by women, denigrating men who support women, etc. Yes man victims exist, and they exist because of patriarchy. The existence of man victims validated the feminist hypothesis