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Bonobo

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2. All I can think is that the argument is that if men do it to other men
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 02:57 AM
Jan 2015

than somehow it means "Too bad for you, you did it to yourselves..."

Seems like a rather cruel -and might I say victim-blaming mentality...

But more to the point, it ignores that actual day-to-day reality of mens' lives. Lives that are, from the time we are young, very much a struggle to deal with the threat of physical harm.

I do not understand how that point can be either a) overlooked or b) called "misogyny"/"denial" or "changing the subject".

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