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There's plenty of men in similar situations. I have heard men basically describing that they have been sexually assaulted without them even understanding that they are victims. I got friends who would be considered victims of domestic violence if they were women
yes, because our society basically thinks female on male sexual assault is 'getting lucky'.
I wouldn't be shocked at all if partner violence female to male was roughly on par with male on female violence, in reality. some studies show the rates are much higher than anyone suspects. but there is so much bias that female on male assault is not assault, sexual, physical, emotional, etc.
One of my biggest take away from therapy was learning it's NOT OK for a woman to scream, hit, threaten, or use other abusive/manipulative tactics on me. It's also why I've basically been almost perpetual single since therapy, because the vast majority of women I have ever dated do these things and it's considered completely normal for a man to tolerate it, and totally unacceptable for a man to do these things to a woman. The double standards are completely insane.
Hey stop listening to my conversations, that was in private!
Seriously though that happened to me lol. Had an ex ask "what were your worst sexual encounters" and she literally had to tell me those were all sexual assault (on me not by me).
One of them would legally be rape if she was a guy (maybe two actually) but in my state women can't be charged with rape and even if they could good luck convincing a jury that I wasn't actually "lucky" or I'm not "secretly gay" and she was hot so I "must have enjoyed it" anyway.