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Man posts meme about being abused by a woman: Top post of the month, loads of supportive messages, heartbreak awards 💔💔💔💔💔💔
Like I get that they can struggle with stigma, but at this point it's far more like when white people make rare cases of people of colour being horrible to them go viral. Like you keep seeing viral posts of a "racist black person" and white people in the comments are whinging about "IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED!!!" If the roles were reversed, you've proven that you wouldn't really care.
At this point, for a story about a woman being abused to go viral among men, it needs a super dramatic hook. Like how Dominique Pelicot found at least 50 men in a small area to rape his wife, or that one case where a man killed his whole family and apparently you could see their ghosts in the police footage.
Edit: By male-dominated places, I mean the whole site of Reddit, often random meme subs, not forums specifically for male victims. Also, thanks for the award 🥹
Edit 2: Responses to this post are mostly negative, which I kind of anticipated, because years ago on a different account when I vented to this sub about my father horribly abusing me, a very common thing in comments was adding caveats like, "And later you will learn to care about men's issues and love men." I won't be reply to comments any more but thanks for the debate