There are many that will tell you that men do not get abused. That is something that we tell ourselves to allow us to sleep well at night but it has little to do with reality. The reality is that men do get abused and I believe that they get abused in similar numbers as women do.
The difference is that men are less likely to report it to authorities when it does happen. Also when they do do the police file the report as a domestic assault or just as a simple assault? It makes a big difference as to how it is handled within the system. If a man accuses his wife or girlfriend of domestic assault and it is recorded as a simple assault it never hits the system and the abuse never happened.
Things have changed and men have been abused for years and now it is time that they get the same treatment that everyone else gets. It is not ok to say that it does not happen, that they deserved it or that it is not as bad. Abuse is abuse and there is no acceptable boundary for when it is ok. Domestic violence needs to come to an end, no one deserves to be abused.
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