I 100% support male victims of abuse/rape, whether it be by a woman or another man, and I think that mainstream America (and probably other countries, as well) need to make a huge shift in perspective when it comes to male survivors. However, even when thinking about how it is both more common for women to come forward about sexual assault than men and to be believed when they report rape/sexual abuse, every study I seem to find on sexual violence reports the same thing: itâs many times more likely for women to be victims of sexual abuse than men, and for men to be perpetrators of sexual abuse than women. I believe that all victims of sexual assault of any kind are entitled to their feelings as well as proper justice. We need to change the way that people treat men who are survivors, but we also need to remember that people only recently started giving a shit about female victims of abuse; men have legally and physically had the upper hand in the USA and many other countries for hundreds of years; more women experience sexual abuse, intimidation, or assault than men; women are generally much more sexualized than men; the reason people tend to believe women is because of how common it has always been for men to rape women; women are commonly trafficked, obviously against their will; it is easier for an average full-grown man to physically overpower an average full-grown woman than the other way around; and men in positions of power have often been notorious for sexually assaulting and then silencing young women with their physical, financial, and social authority. I also believe that those who are caught lying about rape/sexual assault should be punished as harshly as their supposed perpator would have been had they committed the act that the faux victim accused them of. I understand that there are a lot of assholes out there and that the hive mind in our country seems to dismiss and even ridicule male survivors, but there are also many of us who would believe anyone who seeks solace due to sexual violence of any kind. I have also been treated for PTSD due to sexual abuse by men, and spent years too afraid to even admit the events out loud due to my fear of judgement and disbelief, as well as my own denial. Further, a female who has many male friends and who has always been loving towards and supportive of the people I care about, it is somewhat interesting to me that majority of the women in my life have opened up to me about sexual abuse, while only one man has done so, and he was able to get himself out of the situation before there was any sexual physical contact (though that doesnât mean his experience wasnât still traumatic and humiliating, or that it doesnât deserve validation). In summation, I believe that human beings are a bit off the rails with our dominant ethics, and we need a total makeover, after which we become a more loving and empathetic, and less self-absorbed and impulsive species.