Let's get this straight. When people say ALWAYS LISTEN when a survivor/victim of rape/sexual assault speaks up, that's because it takes a LOT of courage to do so. & survivors/victims of rape doesn't mean WOMEN ONLY. So dear men, no, this narrative doesn't exclude us.
Of course men get raped too, so do people across other genders. And they're just as important. Nobody talks about rapes against men not because its not important, but because those stories never make it to people's ears.
And THAT is the conversation we should be having. Why do men have to silently suffer at the hands of patriarchy and the "mard ko dard nahi hota" narrative?
Conversations about women safety and men's safety can happen parallely. They don't have to eat up on each other's space and time. Men's rights abd safety is a conversation on its own, not a retort to women safety. One injustice cannot justify another.
Instead of going all guns blazing with "what about men" when women safety is being discussed, change the way you judge and treat and laugh at other men around you when they cry or express vulnerability so that the pressure on all us men to be "manly enough" is lifted.
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