dear white people

rape culture: men

Dear white feminists,

I know that you're movement is strictly the basis of white woman problems, and you mostly refuse to acknowledge problems out of your race and gender, but it's not just white woman or white feminists who can be raped. When you preach and rant about rape culture being well alive and prevalent, make sure you mention men and WOC in the lecture as well because they more times are than not forgotten about.

I know that it's been established that the white feminism movement is worthless, but it still doesn't cease the fact that their words are affecting us all. They refuse to acknowledge issues out of their gender, especially such a huge one like rape. Yes, woman can be raped, but not only woman are raped. Men being raped is overlooked, but such a heinous thing should not be. Nobody deserves the mental trauma and torture, and if we can all come to comfort and acknowledge that men experience these things too, we can maybe ease some of the pain.

In most cases, woman are the ones raped by disgusting men. And that's a fact, it happens. It needs to be talked about. But where are the publicized cases of men? They're all there, and no, they do not need to man up about it. These notions that men shouldn't express their feelings and emotions is ridiculous, especially when they've experienced a trauma but their stereotype restricts them from speaking up.

It's known that when men speak up about rape, they're teased. They're told they should've defended themselves, but that's not the case. We don't know the situation, we don't know what happened and bad it is impacting the person. We cannot make assumptions about it because most of the time what we are thinking is probably incorrect. Men can be drugged. They can be manipulated. They can be raped, period. Please stop invalidating the men who are raped. It's prevalent, and it deserves to be talked about just as much as woman.

Raise boys and girls the same way. Teach not to rape, instead of avoid rape. Teach love and kindness, not competition or superiority.

Dear everybody, if you classify as a feminist, do us all a favor and acknowledge that everybody can experience this trauma. You're making us all look bad because we don't all believe it is restricted to one gender.