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The biased use of pronouns serves to perpetuate the culturally based myth that men are perpetrators and women are victims. This myth is extremely damaging to the millions of male victims of sexual and…

David Lisak

The biased use of pronouns serves to perpetuate the culturally based myth that men are perpetrators and women are victims. This myth is extremely damaging to the millions of male victims of sexual and...

Tags: sexism, bias, society denial, victims, gender stereotypes, physical abuse, sexual abuse, abused men, perpetrators, rape myths

For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I wish the fuck I never had her.” So thoroughly is motherhood sentimentalized that the mother who wishes…

Judith Lewis Herman

For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I wish the fuck I never had her.” So thoroughly is motherhood sentimentalized that the mother who wishes...

Tags: child abuse, incest, child sexual abuse, child neglect, abusive parent, child protection, child rape, abusive women, abusive mother, child protective services

Men as Victims: Challenging Cultural MythsJudith Herman’s recent treatise on “complex PTSD" (Herman, 1992) is an extremely articulate and compelling analysis of some of the failings of the current PTS…

David Lisak

Men as Victims: Challenging Cultural MythsJudith Herman’s recent treatise on “complex PTSD" (Herman, 1992) is an extremely articulate and compelling analysis of some of the failings of the current PTS...

Tags: sexism, torture, bias, survivors, sexist, sexual abuse, abused men, perpetrators, rape culture, survivors of abuse

... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some ways it's the ultimate betrayal.

Cameron West

... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some ways it's the ultimate betrayal.

Tags: betrayal, attachment, society denial, incest, traumatic experiences, child sexual abuse, parental abuse, childhood sexual abuse, pedophile, male survivor

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

Lundy Bancroft

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

Tags: abuse, ownership, controlling, emotional abuse, abusers, attitude towards people, controlling others, controlling people, psychological abuse, abusive parents